Aaron vs Paul

IRL IRL · Open Men · 5 results

Aaron Soady

1:30:54 best Open Men time · Poznań 2024
510th of 775 place in that race · 775 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Hood

1:34:56 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4253rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Aaron: Poznań 2024, Open Men · Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Aaron and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Aaron: strongest on Carry (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 19%).Paul: strongest on Row (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 5%).

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Part Aaron: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 21% 11%
Push 36% 52%
Pull 75% 21%
BBJ 31% 12%
Row 24% 54%
Carry 81% 5%
Lunges 19% 30%
Wall balls 20% 12%
Roxzone 25% 28%
Runs 44% 44%

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

Part by part

Part Aaron Paul
SkiErg 21% 11%
Sled push 36% 52%
Sled pull 75% 21%
Burpee broad jump 31% 12%
Row 24% 54%
Farmers carry 81% 5%
Sandbag lunges 19% 30%
Wall balls 20% 12%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 28%
Runs (8 km) 44% 44%

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

Aaron · Poznań 2024 · Open Men1:30:54
5:314:444:352:225:073:395:056:405:305:155:151:455:296:206:028:498:55
Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:34:56
3:065:193:442:474:025:484:128:134:164:544:173:104:195:596:1511:3013:13
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.Aaron · Poznań 2024 · Open Men: 42:34 running, 39:34 at the stations and 8:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:49).Below, Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 34:11 running, 47:40 at the stations and 13:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:30) and the shortest the sled push (2:47).

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Part Aaron · Poznań 2024 · Open Men Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:31 3:06
SkiErg 4:44 5:19
Run 2 4:35 3:44
Sled push 2:22 2:47
Run 3 5:07 4:02
Sled pull 3:39 5:48
Run 4 5:05 4:12
Burpee broad jump 6:40 8:13
Run 5 5:30 4:16
Row 5:15 4:54
Run 6 5:15 4:17
Farmers carry 1:45 3:10
Run 7 5:29 4:19
Sandbag lunges 6:20 5:59
Run 8 6:02 6:15
Wall balls 8:49 11:30
Roxzone 8:55 13:13
Finish 1:30:54 1:34:56

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Aaron Paul Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:34:54 1:34:56 0:02 · Aaron faster
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