Alex vs Darren

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Alex Thomas

1:44:56 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4895th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Darren Starling

1:44:53 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4893rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Darren: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Darren sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Push (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 2%).Darren: strongest on Carry (faster than 42% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 2%).

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Part Alex: faster than Darren: faster than
Ski 26% 31%
Push 69% 14%
Pull 2% 19%
BBJ 39% 4%
Row 7% 9%
Carry 16% 42%
Lunges 16% 2%
Wall balls 8% 15%
Roxzone 13% 24%
Runs 15% 23%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Darren
SkiErg 26% 31%
Sled push 69% 14%
Sled pull 2% 19%
Burpee broad jump 39% 4%
Row 7% 9%
Farmers carry 16% 42%
Sandbag lunges 16% 2%
Wall balls 8% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 13% 24%
Runs (8 km) 15% 23%

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

Alex · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:44:56
3:345:044:132:344:548:334:315:595:105:424:502:394:586:597:4012:4514:59
Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:44:53
3:435:014:103:334:505:544:279:474:435:374:332:094:3110:506:4810:5513:31
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.Alex · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 39:51 running, 50:15 at the stations and 14:59 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:45) and the shortest the sled push (2:34).Below, Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:46 running, 53:46 at the stations and 13:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:55).

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Part Alex · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:34 3:43
SkiErg 5:04 5:01
Run 2 4:13 4:10
Sled push 2:34 3:33
Run 3 4:54 4:50
Sled pull 8:33 5:54
Run 4 4:31 4:27
Burpee broad jump 5:59 9:47
Run 5 5:10 4:43
Row 5:42 5:37
Run 6 4:50 4:33
Farmers carry 2:39 2:09
Run 7 4:58 4:31
Sandbag lunges 6:59 10:50
Run 8 7:40 6:48
Wall balls 12:45 10:55
Roxzone 14:59 13:31
Finish 1:44:56 1:44:53

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Darren Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:44:56 1:44:53 0:03 · Darren faster
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