Simon vs Ben

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 · 4 results

Ben Roach

1:12:45 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1168th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Ben: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and Ben 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%).Ben: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 57%).

See the numbers
Part Simon: faster than Ben: faster than
Ski 13% 60%
Push 69% 97%
Pull 85% 95%
BBJ 57% 60%
Row 35% 76%
Carry 60% 57%
Lunges 74% 64%
Wall balls 69% 86%
Roxzone 81% 73%
Runs 88% 74%

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

Part by part

Part Simon Ben
SkiErg 13% 60%
Sled push 69% 97%
Sled pull 85% 95%
Burpee broad jump 57% 60%
Row 35% 76%
Farmers carry 60% 57%
Sandbag lunges 74% 64%
Wall balls 69% 86%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 73%
Runs (8 km) 88% 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

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
Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:12:45
3:134:453:272:033:423:333:465:074:014:413:391:593:284:435:045:1510:28
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, Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 30:21 running, 32:06 at the stations and 10:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:15).

See the numbers
Part Simon · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:46 3:13
SkiErg 5:16 4:45
Run 2 3:17 3:27
Sled push 2:34 2:03
Run 3 3:26 3:42
Sled pull 3:55 3:33
Run 4 3:26 3:46
Burpee broad jump 5:14 5:07
Run 5 3:32 4:01
Row 5:06 4:41
Run 6 3:26 3:39
Farmers carry 1:57 1:59
Run 7 3:26 3:28
Sandbag lunges 4:24 4:43
Run 8 4:52 5:04
Wall balls 6:12 5:15
Roxzone 10:01 10:28
Finish 1:12:44 1:12:45

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon Ben Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:12:44 1:12:45 0:01 · Simon faster
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