John vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

John Kelly

1:19:49 best Open Men time · Glasgow 2025
1348th of 3,034 place in that race · 3,034 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Howat

2:26:17 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5523rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

John: Glasgow 2025, Open Men · James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where John and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.John: strongest on Ski (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 11%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 15% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).

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Part John: faster than James: faster than
Ski 98% 6%
Push 69% 15%
Pull 96% 2%
BBJ 29% 0%
Row 53% 4%
Carry 82% 15%
Lunges 17% 0%
Wall balls 64% 14%
Roxzone 11% 2%
Runs 70% 1%

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

Part by part

Part John James
SkiErg 98% 6%
Sled push 69% 15%
Sled pull 96% 2%
Burpee broad jump 29% 0%
Row 53% 4%
Farmers carry 82% 15%
Sandbag lunges 17% 0%
Wall balls 64% 14%
Roxzone (moving) 11% 2%
Runs (8 km) 70% 1%

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

John · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men1:19:49
3:183:554:492:385:133:075:136:195:044:424:571:445:006:324:245:557:09
James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men2:26:17
4:345:295:173:305:308:415:4623:135:565:545:562:416:3415:1712:1511:1218:41
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.John · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men: 37:59 running, 34:52 at the stations and 7:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:32).Below, James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 51:48 running, 1:15:56 at the stations and 18:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (23:13).

See the numbers
Part John · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:18 4:34
SkiErg 3:55 5:29
Run 2 4:49 5:17
Sled push 2:38 3:30
Run 3 5:13 5:30
Sled pull 3:07 8:41
Run 4 5:13 5:46
Burpee broad jump 6:19 23:13
Run 5 5:04 5:56
Row 4:42 5:54
Run 6 4:57 5:56
Farmers carry 1:44 2:41
Run 7 5:00 6:34
Sandbag lunges 6:32 15:17
Run 8 4:24 12:15
Wall balls 5:55 11:12
Roxzone 7:09 18:41
Finish 1:19:49 2:26:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race John James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 2:26:31 2:26:17 0:14 · James faster
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