Thomas vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Thomas Neale

2:09:19 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5451st of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Bugden

2:00:23 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3737th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Thomas: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Thomas and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Thomas: strongest on Row (faster than 15% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).James: strongest on Ski (faster than 28% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 3%).

See the numbers
Part Thomas: faster than James: faster than
Ski 14% 28%
Push 9% 15%
Pull 7% 16%
BBJ 6% 4%
Row 15% 20%
Carry 14% 9%
Lunges 8% 3%
Wall balls 11% 15%
Roxzone 0% 15%
Runs 2% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Thomas James
SkiErg 14% 28%
Sled push 9% 15%
Sled pull 7% 16%
Burpee broad jump 6% 4%
Row 15% 20%
Farmers carry 14% 9%
Sandbag lunges 8% 3%
Wall balls 11% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 0% 15%
Runs (8 km) 2% 4%

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

Thomas · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men2:09:19
4:165:154:573:455:307:065:079:165:545:275:432:425:557:5813:3911:5425:03
James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:00:23
6:494:415:434:266:146:3010:0610:086:355:126:343:076:509:418:1910:458:51
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.Thomas · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 51:02 running, 53:23 at the stations and 25:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:54).Below, James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 57:10 running, 54:29 at the stations and 8:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:45).

See the numbers
Part Thomas · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:16 6:49
SkiErg 5:15 4:41
Run 2 4:57 5:43
Sled push 3:45 4:26
Run 3 5:30 6:14
Sled pull 7:06 6:30
Run 4 5:07 10:06
Burpee broad jump 9:16 10:08
Run 5 5:54 6:35
Row 5:27 5:12
Run 6 5:43 6:34
Farmers carry 2:42 3:07
Run 7 5:55 6:50
Sandbag lunges 7:58 9:41
Run 8 13:39 8:19
Wall balls 11:54 10:45
Roxzone 25:03 8:51
Finish 2:09:19 2:00:23

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Thomas James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 2:09:19 2:09:07 0:12 · James faster
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