Daniel vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Daniel Castle

1:51:13 best Open Men time · London 2024
2124th of 2,324 place in that race · 2,324 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Smith

1:41:32 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3218th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Daniel: London 2024, Open Men · James: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Daniel and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Daniel: strongest on Ski (faster than 30% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 7%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part Daniel: faster than James: faster than
Ski 30% 14%
Push 10% 54%
Pull 10% 28%
BBJ 14% 13%
Row 16% 21%
Carry 14% 15%
Lunges 7% 18%
Wall balls 13% 46%
Roxzone 14% 16%
Runs 8% 14%

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

Part by part

Part Daniel James
SkiErg 30% 14%
Sled push 10% 54%
Sled pull 10% 28%
Burpee broad jump 14% 13%
Row 16% 21%
Farmers carry 14% 15%
Sandbag lunges 7% 18%
Wall balls 13% 46%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 16%
Runs (8 km) 8% 14%

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

Daniel · London 2024 · Open Men1:51:13
7:064:355:384:186:017:106:028:176:265:146:132:486:048:027:1710:0110:10
James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:41:32
6:334:545:303:115:545:495:588:065:565:106:042:516:096:466:277:328:50
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.Daniel · London 2024 · Open Men: 50:47 running, 50:25 at the stations and 10:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:01).Below, James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 48:31 running, 44:19 at the stations and 8:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:06).

See the numbers
Part Daniel · London 2024 · Open Men James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:06 6:33
SkiErg 4:35 4:54
Run 2 5:38 5:30
Sled push 4:18 3:11
Run 3 6:01 5:54
Sled pull 7:10 5:49
Run 4 6:02 5:58
Burpee broad jump 8:17 8:06
Run 5 6:26 5:56
Row 5:14 5:10
Run 6 6:13 6:04
Farmers carry 2:48 2:51
Run 7 6:04 6:09
Sandbag lunges 8:02 6:46
Run 8 7:17 6:27
Wall balls 10:01 7:32
Roxzone 10:10 8:50
Finish 1:51:13 1:41:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Daniel James Gap
London 2024 Open Men · 1 Dec 2024 1:51:13 1:51:20 0:07 · Daniel faster
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