Michael vs Will

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Difford

2:08:41 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3827th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Will Harrison

2:08:11 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3825th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Will: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall balls
no split
RoxzoneRuns
no split
MichaelWilledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Michael and Will sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).Will: strongest on Ski (faster than 34% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 0%).

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Part Michael: faster than Will: faster than
Ski 2% 34%
Push 3% 20%
Pull 7% 30%
BBJ 3% 3%
Row 8% 10%
Carry 75% 0%
Lunges 5% 7%
Wall balls 6% no split
Roxzone 1% 9%
Runs 4% no split

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

Part by part

Part Michael Will
SkiErg 2% 34%
Sled push 3% 20%
Sled pull 7% 30%
Burpee broad jump 3% 3%
Row 8% 10%
Farmers carry 75% 0%
Sandbag lunges 5% 7%
Wall balls 6% —
Roxzone (moving) 1% 9%
Runs (8 km) 4% —

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

Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:08:41
7:135:236:115:556:507:317:0510:337:095:326:461:517:228:498:4413:1312:43
Will · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:08:11
5:104:384:544:125:145:425:3510:516:495:277:524:537:298:189:52
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.Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 57:20 running, 58:47 at the stations and 12:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:13).Below, Will · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 43:03 running, 44:01 at the stations and 9:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (10:51) and the shortest the sled push (4:12).

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Part Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Will · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:13 5:10
SkiErg 5:23 4:38
Run 2 6:11 4:54
Sled push 5:55 4:12
Run 3 6:50 5:14
Sled pull 7:31 5:42
Run 4 7:05 5:35
Burpee broad jump 10:33 10:51
Run 5 7:09 6:49
Row 5:32 5:27
Run 6 6:46 7:52
Farmers carry 1:51 4:53
Run 7 7:22 7:29
Sandbag lunges 8:49 8:18
Run 8 8:44 —
Wall balls 13:13 —
Roxzone 12:43 9:52
Finish 2:08:41 2:08:11

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Will Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:08:41 2:08:11 0:30 · Will faster
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