Adam vs Luke

IRL IRL · Open Men · 3 results

Adam Kells

1:54:18 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3633rd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Luke Sparkes

1:44:49 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2367th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Adam: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Luke: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Adam and Luke sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Adam: strongest on Push (faster than 26% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 4%).Luke: strongest on Lunges (faster than 34% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 7%).

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Part Adam: faster than Luke: faster than
Ski 13% 20%
Push 26% 14%
Pull 8% 7%
BBJ 21% 20%
Row 16% 19%
Carry 5% 10%
Lunges 4% 34%
Wall balls 18% 7%
Roxzone 12% 29%
Runs 6% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Adam Luke
SkiErg 13% 20%
Sled push 26% 14%
Sled pull 8% 7%
Burpee broad jump 21% 20%
Row 16% 19%
Farmers carry 5% 10%
Sandbag lunges 4% 34%
Wall balls 18% 7%
Roxzone (moving) 12% 29%
Runs (8 km) 6% 16%

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

Adam · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:54:18
6:104:555:283:566:527:156:277:157:035:176:223:346:479:377:5710:099:21
Luke · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:44:49
5:564:535:484:005:566:286:017:436:235:166:333:515:565:377:4411:574:50
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.Adam · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 53:07 running, 51:58 at the stations and 9:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:09).Below, Luke · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 50:16 running, 49:46 at the stations and 4:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:57).

See the numbers
Part Adam · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Luke · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:10 5:56
SkiErg 4:55 4:53
Run 2 5:28 5:48
Sled push 3:56 4:00
Run 3 6:52 5:56
Sled pull 7:15 6:28
Run 4 6:27 6:01
Burpee broad jump 7:15 7:43
Run 5 7:03 6:23
Row 5:17 5:16
Run 6 6:22 6:33
Farmers carry 3:34 3:51
Run 7 6:47 5:56
Sandbag lunges 9:37 5:37
Run 8 7:57 7:44
Wall balls 10:09 11:57
Roxzone 9:21 4:50
Finish 1:54:18 1:44:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Adam Luke Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:54:18 1:54:14 0:04 · Luke faster
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