Simon vs James

IRL IRL · Open Men · 2 results

Simon Donnellan

1:12:44 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1166th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

James Complin

1:07:07 best Open Men time · Valencia Vale
147th of 1,636 place in that race · 1,636 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: Valencia Vale, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Runs (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 13%).James: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 74%).

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Part Simon: faster than James: faster than
Ski 13% 83%
Push 69% 87%
Pull 85% 99%
BBJ 57% 83%
Row 35% 90%
Carry 60% 91%
Lunges 74% 74%
Wall balls 69% 93%
Roxzone 81% 89%
Runs 88% 85%

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

Part by part

Part Simon James
SkiErg 13% 83%
Sled push 69% 87%
Sled pull 85% 99%
Burpee broad jump 57% 83%
Row 35% 90%
Farmers carry 60% 91%
Sandbag lunges 74% 74%
Wall balls 69% 93%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 89%
Runs (8 km) 88% 85%

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 · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:12:44
2:465:163:172:343:263:553:265:143:325:063:261:573:264:244:526:1210:01
James · Valencia Vale · Open Men1:07:07
3:024:214:172:334:243:014:203:544:274:224:201:424:264:134:444:304:40
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 · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 28:10 running, 34:38 at the stations and 10:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:12).Below, James · Valencia Vale · Open Men: 33:59 running, 28:37 at the stations and 4:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:30).

See the numbers
Part Simon · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · Valencia Vale · Open Men
Run 1 2:46 3:02
SkiErg 5:16 4:21
Run 2 3:17 4:17
Sled push 2:34 2:33
Run 3 3:26 4:24
Sled pull 3:55 3:01
Run 4 3:26 4:20
Burpee broad jump 5:14 3:54
Run 5 3:32 4:27
Row 5:06 4:22
Run 6 3:26 4:20
Farmers carry 1:57 1:42
Run 7 3:26 4:26
Sandbag lunges 4:24 4:13
Run 8 4:52 4:44
Wall balls 6:12 4:30
Roxzone 10:01 4:40
Finish 1:12:44 1:07:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:12:44 1:12:44 level
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