Paul vs Mike

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Holmes

1:37:16 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4453rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Mike Doidge

1:27:33 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
1628th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Mike: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Mike sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 37% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 5%).Mike: strongest on Push (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 21%).

See the numbers
Part Paul: faster than Mike: faster than
Ski 10% 32%
Push 5% 70%
Pull 12% 54%
BBJ 8% 49%
Row 8% 31%
Carry 32% 54%
Lunges 18% 53%
Wall balls 20% 21%
Roxzone 37% 37%
Runs 35% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Mike
SkiErg 10% 32%
Sled push 5% 70%
Sled pull 12% 54%
Burpee broad jump 8% 49%
Row 8% 31%
Farmers carry 32% 54%
Sandbag lunges 18% 53%
Wall balls 20% 21%
Roxzone (moving) 37% 37%
Runs (8 km) 35% 40%

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 Men1:37:16
3:015:203:584:054:216:254:188:444:185:404:382:174:276:466:3110:0612:30
Mike · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:27:33
5:284:444:582:465:154:175:115:525:145:035:462:405:164:566:289:144:29
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: 35:32 running, 49:23 at the stations and 12:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:06).Below, Mike · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 43:37 running, 39:32 at the stations and 4:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:14).

See the numbers
Part Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Mike · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:01 5:28
SkiErg 5:20 4:44
Run 2 3:58 4:58
Sled push 4:05 2:46
Run 3 4:21 5:15
Sled pull 6:25 4:17
Run 4 4:18 5:11
Burpee broad jump 8:44 5:52
Run 5 4:18 5:14
Row 5:40 5:03
Run 6 4:38 5:46
Farmers carry 2:17 2:40
Run 7 4:27 5:16
Sandbag lunges 6:46 4:56
Run 8 6:31 6:28
Wall balls 10:06 9:14
Roxzone 12:30 4:29
Finish 1:37:16 1:27:33

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Mike Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:37:16 1:37:15 0:01 · Mike faster
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