Richard vs Giles

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Richard Clark

1:29:23 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
2413th of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Giles Ford

1:27:09 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3391st of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Richard: Birmingham Birm, Open Men · Giles: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Richard and Giles sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Richard: strongest on Row (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 15%).Giles: strongest on Carry (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 27%).

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Part Richard: faster than Giles: faster than
Ski 53% 43%
Push 56% 27%
Pull 54% 53%
BBJ 29% 52%
Row 65% 56%
Carry 59% 66%
Lunges 32% 39%
Wall balls 50% 44%
Roxzone 15% 40%
Runs 34% 28%

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

Part by part

Part Richard Giles
SkiErg 53% 43%
Sled push 56% 27%
Sled pull 54% 53%
Burpee broad jump 29% 52%
Row 65% 56%
Farmers carry 59% 66%
Sandbag lunges 32% 39%
Wall balls 50% 44%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 40%
Runs (8 km) 34% 28%

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

Richard · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:29:23
5:514:324:553:154:564:315:036:365:174:405:092:025:155:525:597:048:34
Giles · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:27:09
3:364:544:183:104:324:434:295:264:364:534:331:534:305:356:077:4312:18
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.Richard · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 42:25 running, 38:32 at the stations and 8:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:04).Below, Giles · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:41 running, 38:17 at the stations and 12:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:43).

See the numbers
Part Richard · Birmingham Birm · Open Men Giles · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:51 3:36
SkiErg 4:32 4:54
Run 2 4:55 4:18
Sled push 3:15 3:10
Run 3 4:56 4:32
Sled pull 4:31 4:43
Run 4 5:03 4:29
Burpee broad jump 6:36 5:26
Run 5 5:17 4:36
Row 4:40 4:53
Run 6 5:09 4:33
Farmers carry 2:02 1:53
Run 7 5:15 4:30
Sandbag lunges 5:52 5:35
Run 8 5:59 6:07
Wall balls 7:04 7:43
Roxzone 8:34 12:18
Finish 1:29:23 1:27:09

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Richard Giles Gap
Birmingham Birm Open Men · 31 Oct 2026 1:29:23 1:29:23 level
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