James vs John

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Cottingham

1:23:37 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
1100th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 1 result

John Farrell

1:23:35 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
1098th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers

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

James: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · John: Cardiff 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Runs (faster than 62% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 11%).John: strongest on Pull (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 16%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than John: faster than
Ski 31% 32%
Push 16% 67%
Pull 11% 67%
BBJ 59% 16%
Row 51% 55%
Carry 35% 45%
Lunges 52% 38%
Wall balls 22% 35%
Roxzone 62% 57%
Runs 62% 53%

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

Part by part

Part James John
SkiErg 31% 32%
Sled push 16% 67%
Sled pull 11% 67%
Burpee broad jump 59% 16%
Row 51% 55%
Farmers carry 35% 45%
Sandbag lunges 52% 38%
Wall balls 22% 35%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 57%
Runs (8 km) 62% 53%

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

James · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:23:37
4:124:423:573:366:016:214:385:394:454:474:362:194:444:435:338:364:28
John · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:23:35
4:504:414:432:465:034:214:557:544:474:454:492:104:565:085:397:314:37
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.James · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 38:26 running, 40:43 at the stations and 4:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:36).Below, John · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 39:42 running, 39:16 at the stations and 4:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:54).

See the numbers
Part James · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men John · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:12 4:50
SkiErg 4:42 4:41
Run 2 3:57 4:43
Sled push 3:36 2:46
Run 3 6:01 5:03
Sled pull 6:21 4:21
Run 4 4:38 4:55
Burpee broad jump 5:39 7:54
Run 5 4:45 4:47
Row 4:47 4:45
Run 6 4:36 4:49
Farmers carry 2:19 2:10
Run 7 4:44 4:56
Sandbag lunges 4:43 5:08
Run 8 5:33 5:39
Wall balls 8:36 7:31
Roxzone 4:28 4:37
Finish 1:23:37 1:23:35

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James John Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 1:23:37 1:23:35 0:02 · John faster
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