Brian vs Gareth

IRL IRL · Open Men · 1 result

Brian Higgins

2:01:04 best Open Men time · Rome 2026
2684th of 2,820 place in that race · 2,820 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Gareth Foster

2:00:56 best Open Men time · Rome 2026
2682nd of 2,820 place in that race · 2,820 Open Men finishers

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

Brian: Rome 2026, Open Men · Gareth: Rome 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Brian and Gareth sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brian: strongest on Carry (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 1%).Gareth: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 19% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 3%).

See the numbers
Part Brian: faster than Gareth: faster than
Ski 17% 11%
Push 35% 3%
Pull 7% 10%
BBJ 2% 4%
Row 1% 12%
Carry 69% 7%
Lunges 14% 3%
Wall balls 5% 11%
Roxzone 5% 19%
Runs 6% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Brian Gareth
SkiErg 17% 11%
Sled push 35% 3%
Sled pull 7% 10%
Burpee broad jump 2% 4%
Row 1% 12%
Farmers carry 69% 7%
Sandbag lunges 14% 3%
Wall balls 5% 11%
Roxzone (moving) 5% 19%
Runs (8 km) 6% 5%

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

Brian · Rome 2026 · Open Men2:01:04
7:204:515:153:465:467:055:3711:396:256:436:041:586:107:2010:5713:0411:09
Gareth · Rome 2026 · Open Men2:00:56
7:074:575:285:526:096:357:1610:167:275:346:173:176:429:488:3310:538:52
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.Brian · Rome 2026 · Open Men: 53:35 running, 56:26 at the stations and 11:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:04).Below, Gareth · Rome 2026 · Open Men: 54:59 running, 57:12 at the stations and 8:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:53).

See the numbers
Part Brian · Rome 2026 · Open Men Gareth · Rome 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:20 7:07
SkiErg 4:51 4:57
Run 2 5:15 5:28
Sled push 3:46 5:52
Run 3 5:46 6:09
Sled pull 7:05 6:35
Run 4 5:37 7:16
Burpee broad jump 11:39 10:16
Run 5 6:25 7:27
Row 6:43 5:34
Run 6 6:04 6:17
Farmers carry 1:58 3:17
Run 7 6:10 6:42
Sandbag lunges 7:20 9:48
Run 8 10:57 8:33
Wall balls 13:04 10:53
Roxzone 11:09 8:52
Finish 2:01:04 2:00:56

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brian Gareth Gap
Rome 2026 Open Men · 23 Sep 2026 2:01:04 2:00:56 0:08 · Gareth faster
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