Nik vs Dan

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Nik Vaidya

1:36:20 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2932nd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Dan Walker

1:27:43 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
1633rd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Nik: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Dan: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nik and Dan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nik: strongest on Lunges (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 5%).Dan: strongest on Runs (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 15%).

See the numbers
Part Nik: faster than Dan: faster than
Ski 19% 24%
Push 5% 17%
Pull 30% 15%
BBJ 36% 38%
Row 12% 21%
Carry 35% 61%
Lunges 64% 26%
Wall balls 42% 22%
Roxzone 14% 23%
Runs 25% 67%

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

Part by part

Part Nik Dan
SkiErg 19% 24%
Sled push 5% 17%
Sled pull 30% 15%
Burpee broad jump 36% 38%
Row 12% 21%
Farmers carry 35% 61%
Sandbag lunges 64% 26%
Wall balls 42% 22%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 23%
Runs (8 km) 25% 67%

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

Nik · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:36:20
6:094:485:025:215:425:425:376:185:435:235:272:235:254:445:507:479:07
Dan · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:27:43
4:464:494:173:514:305:364:506:234:575:145:102:334:456:055:459:045:11
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.Nik · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 44:55 running, 42:25 at the stations and 9:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:47).Below, Dan · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 39:00 running, 43:35 at the stations and 5:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:04).

See the numbers
Part Nik · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Dan · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:09 4:46
SkiErg 4:48 4:49
Run 2 5:02 4:17
Sled push 5:21 3:51
Run 3 5:42 4:30
Sled pull 5:42 5:36
Run 4 5:37 4:50
Burpee broad jump 6:18 6:23
Run 5 5:43 4:57
Row 5:23 5:14
Run 6 5:27 5:10
Farmers carry 2:23 2:33
Run 7 5:25 4:45
Sandbag lunges 4:44 6:05
Run 8 5:50 5:45
Wall balls 7:47 9:04
Roxzone 9:07 5:11
Finish 1:36:20 1:27:43

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nik Dan Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:36:20 1:36:20 level
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