Jacob vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Jacob Rix

1:37:08 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4443rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

James Howes

1:37:07 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4441st of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Jacob: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Jacob and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jacob: strongest on Push (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 12%).James: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 16%).

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Part Jacob: faster than James: faster than
Ski 52% 39%
Push 89% 21%
Pull 39% 25%
BBJ 12% 22%
Row 33% 36%
Carry 28% 65%
Lunges 33% 22%
Wall balls 22% 26%
Roxzone 12% 19%
Runs 20% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Jacob James
SkiErg 52% 39%
Sled push 89% 21%
Sled pull 39% 25%
Burpee broad jump 12% 22%
Row 33% 36%
Farmers carry 28% 65%
Sandbag lunges 33% 22%
Wall balls 22% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 12% 19%
Runs (8 km) 20% 16%

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

Jacob · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:37:08
3:474:494:112:164:205:074:508:144:535:074:512:224:455:506:549:5415:08
James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:37:07
4:094:564:293:194:405:364:447:034:505:054:321:544:436:277:279:2014:01
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.Jacob · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 38:30 running, 43:40 at the stations and 15:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:54) and the shortest the sled push (2:16).Below, James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 39:34 running, 43:40 at the stations and 14:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:20).

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Part Jacob · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:47 4:09
SkiErg 4:49 4:56
Run 2 4:11 4:29
Sled push 2:16 3:19
Run 3 4:20 4:40
Sled pull 5:07 5:36
Run 4 4:50 4:44
Burpee broad jump 8:14 7:03
Run 5 4:53 4:50
Row 5:07 5:05
Run 6 4:51 4:32
Farmers carry 2:22 1:54
Run 7 4:45 4:43
Sandbag lunges 5:50 6:27
Run 8 6:54 7:27
Wall balls 9:54 9:20
Roxzone 15:08 14:01
Finish 1:37:08 1:37:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Jacob James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:37:08 1:37:07 0:01 · James faster
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