David vs James

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

David Schmidt

1:22:04 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
55th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

James Rowson

1:21:58 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
54th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers

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

David: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men · James: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where David and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.David: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 55%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 53%).

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Part David: faster than James: faster than
Ski 71% 57%
Push 67% 95%
Pull 76% 73%
BBJ 63% 74%
Row 74% 58%
Carry 55% 79%
Lunges 65% 95%
Wall balls 88% 53%
Roxzone 88% 84%
Runs 87% 89%

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

Part by part

Part David James
SkiErg 71% 57%
Sled push 67% 95%
Sled pull 76% 73%
Burpee broad jump 63% 74%
Row 74% 58%
Farmers carry 55% 79%
Sandbag lunges 65% 95%
Wall balls 88% 53%
Roxzone (moving) 88% 84%
Runs (8 km) 87% 89%

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

David · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men1:22:04
3:264:224:482:395:044:285:256:085:374:575:192:175:204:585:515:445:48
James · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men1:21:58
4:334:304:322:095:064:354:585:395:025:085:132:015:073:535:298:106:02
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.David · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 40:50 running, 35:33 at the stations and 5:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:08).Below, James · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 40:00 running, 36:05 at the stations and 6:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:10).

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Part David · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men James · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:26 4:33
SkiErg 4:22 4:30
Run 2 4:48 4:32
Sled push 2:39 2:09
Run 3 5:04 5:06
Sled pull 4:28 4:35
Run 4 5:25 4:58
Burpee broad jump 6:08 5:39
Run 5 5:37 5:02
Row 4:57 5:08
Run 6 5:19 5:13
Farmers carry 2:17 2:01
Run 7 5:20 5:07
Sandbag lunges 4:58 3:53
Run 8 5:51 5:29
Wall balls 5:44 8:10
Roxzone 5:48 6:02
Finish 1:22:04 1:21:58

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race David James Gap
Johannesburg (I) 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:22:04 1:21:58 0:06 · James faster
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