Mark vs Alastair

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Mark Thomas

1:40:10 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4650th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Alastair Ayliffe

1:40:08 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4648th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Alastair: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and Alastair sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on BBJ (faster than 45% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 14%).Alastair: strongest on Row (faster than 33% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 6%).

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Part Mark: faster than Alastair: faster than
Ski 32% 21%
Push 17% 26%
Pull 16% 8%
BBJ 45% 12%
Row 25% 33%
Carry 27% 28%
Lunges 15% 6%
Wall balls 14% 24%
Roxzone 19% 23%
Runs 14% 24%

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

Part by part

Part Mark Alastair
SkiErg 32% 21%
Sled push 17% 26%
Sled pull 16% 8%
Burpee broad jump 45% 12%
Row 25% 33%
Farmers carry 27% 28%
Sandbag lunges 15% 6%
Wall balls 14% 24%
Roxzone (moving) 19% 23%
Runs (8 km) 14% 24%

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

Mark · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:40:10
3:285:004:363:265:046:054:565:445:065:144:562:234:527:017:1511:0714:04
Alastair · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:40:08
3:525:084:093:124:286:514:288:124:345:074:272:224:268:367:089:3713:40
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.Mark · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 40:13 running, 45:59 at the stations and 14:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:07).Below, Alastair · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:32 running, 49:05 at the stations and 13:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:37).

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Part Mark · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Alastair · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:28 3:52
SkiErg 5:00 5:08
Run 2 4:36 4:09
Sled push 3:26 3:12
Run 3 5:04 4:28
Sled pull 6:05 6:51
Run 4 4:56 4:28
Burpee broad jump 5:44 8:12
Run 5 5:06 4:34
Row 5:14 5:07
Run 6 4:56 4:27
Farmers carry 2:23 2:22
Run 7 4:52 4:26
Sandbag lunges 7:01 8:36
Run 8 7:15 7:08
Wall balls 11:07 9:37
Roxzone 14:04 13:40
Finish 1:40:10 1:40:08

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark Alastair Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:40:10 1:40:08 0:02 · Alastair faster
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