Joel vs John

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Joel Roberts

1:55:20 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3650th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

John Hayes

1:46:54 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3428th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Joel: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · John: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Joel and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joel: strongest on Push (faster than 31% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 3%).John: strongest on Carry (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 9%).

See the numbers
Part Joel: faster than John: faster than
Ski 9% 57%
Push 31% 43%
Pull 3% 12%
BBJ 16% 28%
Row 24% 13%
Carry 17% 74%
Lunges 20% 9%
Wall balls 4% 22%
Roxzone 10% 10%
Runs 8% 9%

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

Part by part

Part Joel John
SkiErg 9% 57%
Sled push 31% 43%
Sled pull 3% 12%
Burpee broad jump 16% 28%
Row 24% 13%
Farmers carry 17% 74%
Sandbag lunges 20% 9%
Wall balls 4% 22%
Roxzone (moving) 10% 10%
Runs (8 km) 8% 9%

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

Joel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:55:20
6:385:015:373:477:158:346:577:485:385:086:362:476:046:387:0914:169:35
John · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:46:54
6:054:275:323:266:136:516:236:436:425:226:221:527:317:506:359:359:35
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.Joel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 51:54 running, 53:59 at the stations and 9:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:16).Below, John · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 51:23 running, 46:06 at the stations and 9:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:35).

See the numbers
Part Joel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men John · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:38 6:05
SkiErg 5:01 4:27
Run 2 5:37 5:32
Sled push 3:47 3:26
Run 3 7:15 6:13
Sled pull 8:34 6:51
Run 4 6:57 6:23
Burpee broad jump 7:48 6:43
Run 5 5:38 6:42
Row 5:08 5:22
Run 6 6:36 6:22
Farmers carry 2:47 1:52
Run 7 6:04 7:31
Sandbag lunges 6:38 7:50
Run 8 7:09 6:35
Wall balls 14:16 9:35
Roxzone 9:35 9:35
Finish 1:55:20 1:46:54

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joel John Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:55:20 1:55:20 level
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