Joshua vs Simon

SCO SCO · Open Men · 4 results

Joshua McPolin

1:16:31 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1061st of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Simon Reeve

1:16:30 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1060th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

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

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

This chart shows where Joshua and Simon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joshua: strongest on Ski (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 37%).Simon: strongest on Push (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 40%).

See the numbers
Part Joshua: faster than Simon: faster than
Ski 83% 57%
Push 37% 86%
Pull 71% 69%
BBJ 70% 40%
Row 81% 45%
Carry 70% 72%
Lunges 75% 85%
Wall balls 80% 58%
Roxzone 59% 79%
Runs 70% 74%

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

Part by part

Part Joshua Simon
SkiErg 83% 57%
Sled push 37% 86%
Sled pull 71% 69%
Burpee broad jump 70% 40%
Row 81% 45%
Farmers carry 70% 72%
Sandbag lunges 75% 85%
Wall balls 80% 58%
Roxzone (moving) 59% 79%
Runs (8 km) 70% 74%

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

Joshua · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:16:31
4:414:154:093:374:484:284:414:484:534:314:371:554:224:224:395:386:15
Simon · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:16:30
5:164:274:052:254:124:304:246:044:294:524:301:534:264:034:416:505:30
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.Joshua · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 36:50 running, 33:35 at the stations and 6:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:38).Below, Simon · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 36:02 running, 35:04 at the stations and 5:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:50).

See the numbers
Part Joshua · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Simon · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:41 5:16
SkiErg 4:15 4:27
Run 2 4:09 4:05
Sled push 3:37 2:25
Run 3 4:48 4:12
Sled pull 4:28 4:30
Run 4 4:41 4:24
Burpee broad jump 4:48 6:04
Run 5 4:53 4:29
Row 4:31 4:52
Run 6 4:37 4:30
Farmers carry 1:55 1:53
Run 7 4:22 4:26
Sandbag lunges 4:22 4:03
Run 8 4:39 4:41
Wall balls 5:38 6:50
Roxzone 6:15 5:30
Finish 1:16:31 1:16:30

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joshua Simon Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:16:31 1:16:30 0:01 · Simon faster
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