James vs Stuart

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

James Safford

1:14:00 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
173rd of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Stuart Higson

1:13:50 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
171st of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

James: Boston 2026, Open Men · Stuart: Boston 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
JamesStuartedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where James and Stuart sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 59%).Stuart: strongest on Lunges (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 60%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than Stuart: faster than
Ski 59% 69%
Push 71% 60%
Pull 99% 93%
BBJ 77% 73%
Row 97% 89%
Carry 94% 83%
Lunges 71% 94%
Wall balls 94% 90%
Roxzone 80% 91%
Runs 86% 87%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part James Stuart
SkiErg 59% 69%
Sled push 71% 60%
Sled pull 99% 93%
Burpee broad jump 77% 73%
Row 97% 89%
Farmers carry 94% 83%
Sandbag lunges 71% 94%
Wall balls 94% 90%
Roxzone (moving) 80% 91%
Runs (8 km) 86% 87%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

James · Boston 2026 · Open Men1:14:00
3:544:344:413:164:383:074:524:534:474:214:351:414:334:525:044:365:43
Stuart · Boston 2026 · Open Men1:13:50
3:514:294:373:294:423:514:405:044:474:314:431:524:383:445:084:584:56
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.James · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 37:04 running, 31:20 at the stations and 5:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (4:53).Below, Stuart · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 37:06 running, 31:58 at the stations and 4:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:04).

See the numbers
Part James · Boston 2026 · Open Men Stuart · Boston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:54 3:51
SkiErg 4:34 4:29
Run 2 4:41 4:37
Sled push 3:16 3:29
Run 3 4:38 4:42
Sled pull 3:07 3:51
Run 4 4:52 4:40
Burpee broad jump 4:53 5:04
Run 5 4:47 4:47
Row 4:21 4:31
Run 6 4:35 4:43
Farmers carry 1:41 1:52
Run 7 4:33 4:38
Sandbag lunges 4:52 3:44
Run 8 5:04 5:08
Wall balls 4:36 4:58
Roxzone 5:43 4:56
Finish 1:14:00 1:13:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Stuart Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 1:14:00 1:13:50 0:10 · Stuart faster
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