James vs Josh

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

James Ellis

1:16:24 best Open Men time · Manchester 2024
422nd of 1,206 place in that race · 1,206 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Josh Clarke

1:12:58 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
542nd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

James: Manchester 2024, Open Men · Josh: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on BBJ (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 12%).Josh: strongest on Lunges (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 60%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 12% 60%
Push 27% 73%
Pull 67% 79%
BBJ 76% 92%
Row 40% 75%
Carry 17% 65%
Lunges 74% 95%
Wall balls 58% 90%
Roxzone 66% 79%
Runs 65% 61%

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

Part by part

Part James Josh
SkiErg 12% 60%
Sled push 27% 73%
Sled pull 67% 79%
Burpee broad jump 76% 92%
Row 40% 75%
Farmers carry 17% 65%
Sandbag lunges 74% 95%
Wall balls 58% 90%
Roxzone (moving) 66% 79%
Runs (8 km) 65% 61%

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

James · Manchester 2024 · Open Men1:16:24
3:354:414:542:455:043:565:024:144:564:425:002:285:064:165:065:415:07
Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:12:58
4:404:304:292:445:093:424:473:564:554:355:152:304:293:246:114:373:07
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.James · Manchester 2024 · Open Men: 38:43 running, 32:43 at the stations and 5:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:41).Below, Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 39:55 running, 29:58 at the stations and 3:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:37).

See the numbers
Part James · Manchester 2024 · Open Men Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:35 4:40
SkiErg 4:41 4:30
Run 2 4:54 4:29
Sled push 2:45 2:44
Run 3 5:04 5:09
Sled pull 3:56 3:42
Run 4 5:02 4:47
Burpee broad jump 4:14 3:56
Run 5 4:56 4:55
Row 4:42 4:35
Run 6 5:00 5:15
Farmers carry 2:28 2:30
Run 7 5:06 4:29
Sandbag lunges 4:16 3:24
Run 8 5:06 6:11
Wall balls 5:41 4:37
Roxzone 5:07 3:07
Finish 1:16:24 1:12:58

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race James Josh Gap
Manchester 2024 Open Men · 9 Nov 2024 1:16:24 1:16:23 0:01 · Josh faster
Birmingham 2024 Open Men · 25 Oct 2024 1:24:14 1:25:10 0:56 · James faster
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