Paul vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Howard

1:26:03 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3224th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 12 results

James Hall

1:26:03 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3226th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on BBJ (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 25%).James: strongest on Lunges (faster than 61% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 18%).

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Part Paul: faster than James: faster than
Ski 37% 19%
Push 68% 18%
Pull 42% 35%
BBJ 83% 57%
Row 61% 37%
Carry 60% 38%
Lunges 78% 61%
Wall balls 43% 30%
Roxzone 26% 37%
Runs 25% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Paul James
SkiErg 37% 19%
Sled push 68% 18%
Sled pull 42% 35%
Burpee broad jump 83% 57%
Row 61% 37%
Farmers carry 60% 38%
Sandbag lunges 78% 61%
Wall balls 43% 30%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 37%
Runs (8 km) 25% 48%

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 Men1:26:03
3:444:574:242:354:355:004:294:084:294:504:171:574:284:156:537:4713:22
James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:26:03
3:025:103:303:243:495:153:555:134:285:044:162:124:084:486:328:5212:32
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: 37:18 running, 35:28 at the stations and 13:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:47).Below, James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 33:40 running, 39:59 at the stations and 12:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:52).

See the numbers
Part Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:44 3:02
SkiErg 4:57 5:10
Run 2 4:24 3:30
Sled push 2:35 3:24
Run 3 4:35 3:49
Sled pull 5:00 5:15
Run 4 4:29 3:55
Burpee broad jump 4:08 5:13
Run 5 4:29 4:28
Row 4:50 5:04
Run 6 4:17 4:16
Farmers carry 1:57 2:12
Run 7 4:28 4:08
Sandbag lunges 4:15 4:48
Run 8 6:53 6:32
Wall balls 7:47 8:52
Roxzone 13:22 12:32
Finish 1:26:03 1:26:03

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:26:03 1:26:03 level
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