Alex vs Matt

GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Alex Pickering

1:16:49 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1786th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Matt Simon

1:16:48 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1785th 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 · Matt: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 26%).Matt: strongest on BBJ (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 21%).

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Part Alex: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 26% 58%
Push 80% 39%
Pull 72% 21%
BBJ 65% 78%
Row 50% 59%
Carry 62% 39%
Lunges 56% 74%
Wall balls 80% 53%
Roxzone 72% 70%
Runs 59% 77%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Matt
SkiErg 26% 58%
Sled push 80% 39%
Sled pull 72% 21%
Burpee broad jump 65% 78%
Row 50% 59%
Farmers carry 62% 39%
Sandbag lunges 56% 74%
Wall balls 80% 53%
Roxzone (moving) 72% 70%
Runs (8 km) 59% 77%

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 Men1:16:49
3:285:043:522:253:594:154:024:564:024:563:591:563:474:585:105:3410:33
Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:16:48
3:044:463:322:583:335:473:364:223:464:513:442:113:374:235:017:0610:39
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: 32:19 running, 34:04 at the stations and 10:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:34).Below, Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 29:53 running, 36:24 at the stations and 10:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:06).

See the numbers
Part Alex · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:28 3:04
SkiErg 5:04 4:46
Run 2 3:52 3:32
Sled push 2:25 2:58
Run 3 3:59 3:33
Sled pull 4:15 5:47
Run 4 4:02 3:36
Burpee broad jump 4:56 4:22
Run 5 4:02 3:46
Row 4:56 4:51
Run 6 3:59 3:44
Farmers carry 1:56 2:11
Run 7 3:47 3:37
Sandbag lunges 4:58 4:23
Run 8 5:10 5:01
Wall balls 5:34 7:06
Roxzone 10:33 10:39
Finish 1:16:49 1:16:48

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Matt Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:16:49 1:16:48 0:01 · Matt faster
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