Alistair vs Tom

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Alistair Howells

1:42:13 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4757th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Tom Robertson

1:42:14 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4759th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Alistair: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Tom: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alistair and Tom sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alistair: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 3%).Tom: strongest on Ski (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).

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Part Alistair: faster than Tom: faster than
Ski 18% 54%
Push 16% 3%
Pull 20% 28%
BBJ 7% 6%
Row 64% 7%
Carry 65% 3%
Lunges 6% 11%
Wall balls 3% 17%
Roxzone 42% 28%
Runs 31% 23%

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

Part by part

Part Alistair Tom
SkiErg 18% 54%
Sled push 16% 3%
Sled pull 20% 28%
Burpee broad jump 7% 6%
Row 64% 7%
Farmers carry 65% 3%
Sandbag lunges 6% 11%
Wall balls 3% 17%
Roxzone (moving) 42% 28%
Runs (8 km) 31% 23%

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

Alistair · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:42:13
3:305:113:563:284:105:514:178:584:254:484:211:544:288:267:0015:2812:11
Tom · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:42:14
3:094:484:004:224:275:294:479:154:465:445:043:294:557:266:4510:4113:14
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.Alistair · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:07 running, 54:04 at the stations and 12:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:28).Below, Tom · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:53 running, 51:13 at the stations and 13:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:41).

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Part Alistair · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Tom · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:30 3:09
SkiErg 5:11 4:48
Run 2 3:56 4:00
Sled push 3:28 4:22
Run 3 4:10 4:27
Sled pull 5:51 5:29
Run 4 4:17 4:47
Burpee broad jump 8:58 9:15
Run 5 4:25 4:46
Row 4:48 5:44
Run 6 4:21 5:04
Farmers carry 1:54 3:29
Run 7 4:28 4:55
Sandbag lunges 8:26 7:26
Run 8 7:00 6:45
Wall balls 15:28 10:41
Roxzone 12:11 13:14
Finish 1:42:13 1:42:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alistair Tom Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:42:13 1:42:14 0:01 · Alistair faster
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