Louis vs Josh

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Louis Howes

1:09:47 best Open Men time · Málaga 2025
220th of 1,501 place in that race · 1,501 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Josh Forster

1:08:16 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
254th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Louis: Málaga 2025, Open Men · Josh: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Louis and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Louis: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 55%).Josh: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 48%).

See the numbers
Part Louis: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 55% 82%
Push 77% 48%
Pull 81% 84%
BBJ 69% 80%
Row 61% 80%
Carry 58% 90%
Lunges 86% 73%
Wall balls 89% 86%
Roxzone 84% 93%
Runs 84% 93%

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

Part by part

Part Louis Josh
SkiErg 55% 82%
Sled push 77% 48%
Sled pull 81% 84%
Burpee broad jump 69% 80%
Row 61% 80%
Farmers carry 58% 90%
Sandbag lunges 86% 73%
Wall balls 89% 86%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 93%
Runs (8 km) 84% 93%

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

Louis · Málaga 2025 · Open Men1:09:47
3:524:214:172:434:233:454:224:294:344:474:262:004:153:594:284:244:50
Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:08:16
4:094:203:553:074:073:344:114:354:294:324:222:044:034:185:014:512:43
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.Louis · Málaga 2025 · Open Men: 34:37 running, 30:28 at the stations and 4:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:47).Below, Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 34:17 running, 31:21 at the stations and 2:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:51).

See the numbers
Part Louis · Málaga 2025 · Open Men Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:52 4:09
SkiErg 4:21 4:20
Run 2 4:17 3:55
Sled push 2:43 3:07
Run 3 4:23 4:07
Sled pull 3:45 3:34
Run 4 4:22 4:11
Burpee broad jump 4:29 4:35
Run 5 4:34 4:29
Row 4:47 4:32
Run 6 4:26 4:22
Farmers carry 2:00 2:04
Run 7 4:15 4:03
Sandbag lunges 3:59 4:18
Run 8 4:28 5:01
Wall balls 4:24 4:51
Roxzone 4:50 2:43
Finish 1:09:47 1:08:16

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Louis Josh Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:12:21 1:12:19 0:02 · Josh faster
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