Alex vs Ben

GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Alex Winstanley

57:49 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
12th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 10 results

Ben Allon-Smith

57:02 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
10th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Ben: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
no split
AlexBenedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Alex and Ben sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 89%).Ben: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 96%).

See the numbers
Part Alex: faster than Ben: faster than
Ski 95% 98%
Push 99% 97%
Pull 99% 99%
BBJ 89% 99%
Row 99% 99%
Carry 99% 96%
Lunges 99% 99%
Wall balls 95% 98%
Roxzone 99% 99%
Runs 99% 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 Alex Ben
SkiErg 95% 98%
Sled push 99% 97%
Sled pull 99% 99%
Burpee broad jump 89% 99%
Row 99% 99%
Farmers carry 99% 96%
Sandbag lunges 99% 99%
Wall balls 95% 98%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 99%
Runs (8 km) 99% —

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

Alex · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men57:49
3:484:063:161:553:343:153:293:593:323:573:311:213:272:573:304:323:49
Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men57:02
2:344:172:542:012:593:043:002:502:574:112:551:282:522:584:024:137:54
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.Alex · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 28:07 running, 26:02 at the stations and 3:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:32).Below, Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 24:13 running, 25:02 at the stations and 7:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:17).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:48 2:34
SkiErg 4:06 4:17
Run 2 3:16 2:54
Sled push 1:55 2:01
Run 3 3:34 2:59
Sled pull 3:15 3:04
Run 4 3:29 3:00
Burpee broad jump 3:59 2:50
Run 5 3:32 2:57
Row 3:57 4:11
Run 6 3:31 2:55
Farmers carry 1:21 1:28
Run 7 3:27 2:52
Sandbag lunges 2:57 2:58
Run 8 3:30 4:02
Wall balls 4:32 4:13
Roxzone 3:49 7:54
Finish 57:49 57:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Ben Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 57:49 58:19 0:30 · Alex faster
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