Michael vs David

IRL IRL · Open Men · 4 results

Michael Lynch

1:17:13 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1864th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

David Macdonald

1:28:26 best Open Men time · Glasgow 2026
1581st of 2,661 place in that race · 2,661 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · David: Glasgow 2026, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MichaelDavidedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Michael and David sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Pull (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 26%).David: strongest on Ski (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 29%).

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Part Michael: faster than David: faster than
Ski 66% 73%
Push 26% 29%
Pull 84% 62%
BBJ 73% 36%
Row 56% 58%
Carry 66% 41%
Lunges 81% 39%
Wall balls 79% 43%
Roxzone 48% 42%
Runs 57% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Michael David
SkiErg 66% 73%
Sled push 26% 29%
Sled pull 84% 62%
Burpee broad jump 73% 36%
Row 56% 58%
Farmers carry 66% 41%
Sandbag lunges 81% 39%
Wall balls 79% 43%
Roxzone (moving) 48% 42%
Runs (8 km) 57% 34%

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

Michael · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:17:13
2:584:423:403:123:533:564:004:364:064:534:021:534:064:115:455:3811:49
David · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men1:28:26
5:194:215:073:165:224:025:366:115:424:515:302:185:385:406:427:445:17
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.Michael · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 32:30 running, 33:00 at the stations and 11:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:38).Below, David · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men: 44:56 running, 38:23 at the stations and 5:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:44).

See the numbers
Part Michael · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men David · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:58 5:19
SkiErg 4:42 4:21
Run 2 3:40 5:07
Sled push 3:12 3:16
Run 3 3:53 5:22
Sled pull 3:56 4:02
Run 4 4:00 5:36
Burpee broad jump 4:36 6:11
Run 5 4:06 5:42
Row 4:53 4:51
Run 6 4:02 5:30
Farmers carry 1:53 2:18
Run 7 4:06 5:38
Sandbag lunges 4:11 5:40
Run 8 5:45 6:42
Wall balls 5:38 7:44
Roxzone 11:49 5:17
Finish 1:17:13 1:28:26

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael David Gap
Glasgow 2026 Open Men · 11 Mar 2026 1:28:26 1:28:26 level
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