Richard vs Phil

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Richard Bacon

1:27:09 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
1287th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Phil Blundell

1:47:39 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
2215th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers

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

Richard: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · Phil: Manchester 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Richard and Phil sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Richard: strongest on Carry (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 9%).Phil: strongest on BBJ (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Richard: faster than Phil: faster than
Ski 21% 1%
Push 35% 5%
Pull 37% 9%
BBJ 27% 86%
Row 19% 5%
Carry 84% 70%
Lunges 9% 13%
Wall balls 30% 7%
Roxzone 71% 2%
Runs 45% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Richard Phil
SkiErg 21% 1%
Sled push 35% 5%
Sled pull 37% 9%
Burpee broad jump 27% 86%
Row 19% 5%
Farmers carry 84% 70%
Sandbag lunges 9% 13%
Wall balls 30% 7%
Roxzone (moving) 71% 2%
Runs (8 km) 45% 33%

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 · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:27:09
4:464:494:363:134:545:064:457:045:065:105:181:445:226:526:197:524:13
Phil · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:47:39
4:045:195:293:555:316:175:403:506:015:415:481:565:537:356:3812:3515:35
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 · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 41:07 running, 41:51 at the stations and 4:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:52).Below, Phil · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 45:04 running, 47:07 at the stations and 15:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:35).

See the numbers
Part Richard · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men Phil · Manchester 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:46 4:04
SkiErg 4:49 5:19
Run 2 4:36 5:29
Sled push 3:13 3:55
Run 3 4:54 5:31
Sled pull 5:06 6:17
Run 4 4:45 5:40
Burpee broad jump 7:04 3:50
Run 5 5:06 6:01
Row 5:10 5:41
Run 6 5:18 5:48
Farmers carry 1:44 1:56
Run 7 5:22 5:53
Sandbag lunges 6:52 7:35
Run 8 6:19 6:38
Wall balls 7:52 12:35
Roxzone 4:13 15:35
Finish 1:27:09 1:47:39

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Richard Phil Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:47:40 1:47:39 0:01 · Phil faster
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