Gareth vs Darren

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Gareth Johns

1:40:58 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4692nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Darren Reed

1:33:28 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
1936th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Gareth: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Darren: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Gareth and Darren sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gareth: strongest on Push (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 10%).Darren: strongest on Push (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 12%).

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Part Gareth: faster than Darren: faster than
Ski 13% 22%
Push 54% 81%
Pull 40% 12%
BBJ 13% 51%
Row 28% 39%
Carry 37% 60%
Lunges 15% 18%
Wall balls 30% 49%
Roxzone 14% 52%
Runs 10% 18%

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

Part by part

Part Gareth Darren
SkiErg 13% 22%
Sled push 54% 81%
Sled pull 40% 12%
Burpee broad jump 13% 51%
Row 28% 39%
Farmers carry 37% 60%
Sandbag lunges 15% 18%
Wall balls 30% 49%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 52%
Runs (8 km) 10% 18%

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

Gareth · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:40:58
4:035:174:322:454:425:055:057:575:165:115:142:135:297:037:378:5314:43
Darren · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:33:28
6:044:515:362:356:055:526:105:476:114:576:202:346:026:357:096:503:54
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.Gareth · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 41:58 running, 44:23 at the stations and 14:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:53).Below, Darren · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 49:37 running, 40:01 at the stations and 3:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:50).

See the numbers
Part Gareth · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Darren · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:03 6:04
SkiErg 5:17 4:51
Run 2 4:32 5:36
Sled push 2:45 2:35
Run 3 4:42 6:05
Sled pull 5:05 5:52
Run 4 5:05 6:10
Burpee broad jump 7:57 5:47
Run 5 5:16 6:11
Row 5:11 4:57
Run 6 5:14 6:20
Farmers carry 2:13 2:34
Run 7 5:29 6:02
Sandbag lunges 7:03 6:35
Run 8 7:37 7:09
Wall balls 8:53 6:50
Roxzone 14:43 3:54
Finish 1:40:58 1:33:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gareth Darren Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:40:58 1:40:59 0:01 · Gareth faster
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