Simon vs Darren

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Simon Bedford-Smith

1:33:01 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2687th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
IMN IMN · Open Men · 2 results

Darren Kewley

1:33:01 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2689th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Darren: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and Darren sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Pull (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 19%).Darren: strongest on Push (faster than 41% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 17%).

See the numbers
Part Simon: faster than Darren: faster than
Ski 45% 30%
Push 31% 41%
Pull 71% 20%
BBJ 33% 34%
Row 45% 31%
Carry 21% 17%
Lunges 49% 38%
Wall balls 43% 36%
Roxzone 47% 26%
Runs 19% 35%

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

Part by part

Part Simon Darren
SkiErg 45% 30%
Sled push 31% 41%
Sled pull 71% 20%
Burpee broad jump 33% 34%
Row 45% 31%
Farmers carry 21% 17%
Sandbag lunges 49% 38%
Wall balls 43% 36%
Roxzone (moving) 47% 26%
Runs (8 km) 19% 35%

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

Simon · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:33:01
6:024:325:113:475:324:275:326:265:584:525:472:415:365:156:557:466:49
Darren · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:33:01
5:514:404:533:305:126:125:206:255:165:015:132:485:245:395:378:137:54
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.Simon · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 46:32 running, 39:46 at the stations and 6:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:46).Below, Darren · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 42:46 running, 42:29 at the stations and 7:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:13).

See the numbers
Part Simon · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Darren · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:02 5:51
SkiErg 4:32 4:40
Run 2 5:11 4:53
Sled push 3:47 3:30
Run 3 5:32 5:12
Sled pull 4:27 6:12
Run 4 5:32 5:20
Burpee broad jump 6:26 6:25
Run 5 5:58 5:16
Row 4:52 5:01
Run 6 5:47 5:13
Farmers carry 2:41 2:48
Run 7 5:36 5:24
Sandbag lunges 5:15 5:39
Run 8 6:55 5:37
Wall balls 7:46 8:13
Roxzone 6:49 7:54
Finish 1:33:01 1:33:01

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon Darren Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:33:01 1:33:01 level
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