Mike vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Mike Allam

2:05:31 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
1994th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Paul Cussell

1:52:17 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
2524th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers

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

Mike: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · Paul: Birmingham 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mike and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mike: strongest on Carry (faster than 20% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).Paul: strongest on Lunges (faster than 50% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Mike: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 11% 5%
Push 2% 23%
Pull 2% 16%
BBJ 9% 12%
Row 8% 30%
Carry 20% 41%
Lunges 19% 50%
Wall balls 1% 27%
Roxzone 4% 11%
Runs 2% 2%

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

Part by part

Part Mike Paul
SkiErg 11% 5%
Sled push 2% 23%
Sled pull 2% 16%
Burpee broad jump 9% 12%
Row 8% 30%
Farmers carry 20% 41%
Sandbag lunges 19% 50%
Wall balls 1% 27%
Roxzone (moving) 4% 11%
Runs (8 km) 2% 2%

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

Mike · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men2:05:31
7:094:597:044:376:497:597:179:077:185:287:192:387:305:589:1416:318:34
Paul · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:52:17
7:175:026:123:196:356:127:058:327:445:007:172:137:335:068:358:0510:39
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.Mike · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 59:40 running, 57:17 at the stations and 8:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:31).Below, Paul · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 58:17 running, 43:29 at the stations and 10:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:32).

See the numbers
Part Mike · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men Paul · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 7:09 7:17
SkiErg 4:59 5:02
Run 2 7:04 6:12
Sled push 4:37 3:19
Run 3 6:49 6:35
Sled pull 7:59 6:12
Run 4 7:17 7:05
Burpee broad jump 9:07 8:32
Run 5 7:18 7:44
Row 5:28 5:00
Run 6 7:19 7:17
Farmers carry 2:38 2:13
Run 7 7:30 7:33
Sandbag lunges 5:58 5:06
Run 8 9:14 8:35
Wall balls 16:31 8:05
Roxzone 8:34 10:39
Finish 2:05:31 1:52:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Paul Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 2:05:31 2:05:14 0:17 · Paul faster
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