Jay vs Richard

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Jay Popham

1:05:24 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
86th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Richard Wilder

1:02:24 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
62nd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Jay: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · Richard: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
JayRichardedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Jay and Richard sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jay: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 62%).Richard: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 93%).

See the numbers
Part Jay: faster than Richard: faster than
Ski 99% 98%
Push 90% 93%
Pull 98% 98%
BBJ 90% 98%
Row 97% 99%
Carry 62% 99%
Lunges 98% 97%
Wall balls 99% 95%
Roxzone 89% 98%
Runs 88% 94%

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

Part by part

Part Jay Richard
SkiErg 99% 98%
Sled push 90% 93%
Sled pull 98% 98%
Burpee broad jump 90% 98%
Row 97% 99%
Farmers carry 62% 99%
Sandbag lunges 98% 97%
Wall balls 99% 95%
Roxzone (moving) 89% 98%
Runs (8 km) 88% 94%

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

Jay · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:05:24
3:584:013:542:244:083:224:014:154:084:185:291:594:133:094:433:453:37
Richard · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:02:24
4:244:054:022:204:093:004:053:204:114:094:181:473:553:124:514:102:30
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.Jay · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 34:34 running, 27:13 at the stations and 3:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:18).Below, Richard · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 33:55 running, 26:02 at the stations and 2:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:10).

See the numbers
Part Jay · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men Richard · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:58 4:24
SkiErg 4:01 4:05
Run 2 3:54 4:02
Sled push 2:24 2:20
Run 3 4:08 4:09
Sled pull 3:22 3:00
Run 4 4:01 4:05
Burpee broad jump 4:15 3:20
Run 5 4:08 4:11
Row 4:18 4:09
Run 6 5:29 4:18
Farmers carry 1:59 1:47
Run 7 4:13 3:55
Sandbag lunges 3:09 3:12
Run 8 4:43 4:51
Wall balls 3:45 4:10
Roxzone 3:37 2:30
Finish 1:05:24 1:02:24

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Jay Richard Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 1:05:24 1:05:24 level
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