Paul vs Darren

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Paul Liddon

1:17:03 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1834th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Darren Taylor

1:16:28 best Open Men time · Manchester 2024
425th of 1,206 place in that race · 1,206 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Darren: Manchester 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Darren sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 20%).Darren: strongest on Ski (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 10%).

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Part Paul: faster than Darren: faster than
Ski 82% 94%
Push 93% 58%
Pull 61% 92%
BBJ 81% 44%
Row 76% 81%
Carry 20% 63%
Lunges 46% 10%
Wall balls 40% 49%
Roxzone 78% 61%
Runs 69% 77%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Darren
SkiErg 82% 94%
Sled push 93% 58%
Sled pull 61% 92%
Burpee broad jump 81% 44%
Row 76% 81%
Farmers carry 20% 63%
Sandbag lunges 46% 10%
Wall balls 40% 49%
Roxzone (moving) 78% 61%
Runs (8 km) 69% 77%

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

Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:17:03
3:034:333:262:113:404:303:384:153:454:413:492:323:555:195:418:0110:12
Darren · Manchester 2024 · Open Men1:16:28
3:123:554:342:214:393:174:465:214:524:204:481:504:407:185:206:065:17
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.Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 30:57 running, 36:02 at the stations and 10:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:01) and the shortest the sled push (2:11).Below, Darren · Manchester 2024 · Open Men: 36:52 running, 34:28 at the stations and 5:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (7:18).

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Part Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Darren · Manchester 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 3:03 3:12
SkiErg 4:33 3:55
Run 2 3:26 4:34
Sled push 2:11 2:21
Run 3 3:40 4:39
Sled pull 4:30 3:17
Run 4 3:38 4:46
Burpee broad jump 4:15 5:21
Run 5 3:45 4:52
Row 4:41 4:20
Run 6 3:49 4:48
Farmers carry 2:32 1:50
Run 7 3:55 4:40
Sandbag lunges 5:19 7:18
Run 8 5:41 5:20
Wall balls 8:01 6:06
Roxzone 10:12 5:17
Finish 1:17:03 1:16:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Darren Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:17:03 1:17:02 0:01 · Darren faster
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