John vs Josh

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

John Strachan

1:15:51 best Open Men time · Glasgow 2025
968th of 3,034 place in that race · 3,034 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Josh Thomas

1:16:25 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
812th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

John: Glasgow 2025, Open Men · Josh: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where John and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.John: strongest on Ski (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 48%).Josh: strongest on Push (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 51%).

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Part John: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 87% 80%
Push 79% 91%
Pull 76% 81%
BBJ 77% 59%
Row 73% 61%
Carry 70% 51%
Lunges 65% 61%
Wall balls 48% 79%
Roxzone 62% 76%
Runs 63% 60%

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

Part by part

Part John Josh
SkiErg 87% 80%
Sled push 79% 91%
Sled pull 76% 81%
Burpee broad jump 77% 59%
Row 73% 61%
Farmers carry 70% 51%
Sandbag lunges 65% 61%
Wall balls 48% 79%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 76%
Runs (8 km) 63% 60%

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

John · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men1:15:51
3:424:065:002:295:133:495:094:175:204:325:111:525:134:344:206:374:35
Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:16:25
4:204:213:542:234:443:394:455:294:344:438:102:424:214:405:165:153:12
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.John · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men: 39:08 running, 32:16 at the stations and 4:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:37).Below, Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 40:04 running, 33:12 at the stations and 3:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:29) and the shortest the sled push (2:23).

See the numbers
Part John · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men Josh · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:42 4:20
SkiErg 4:06 4:21
Run 2 5:00 3:54
Sled push 2:29 2:23
Run 3 5:13 4:44
Sled pull 3:49 3:39
Run 4 5:09 4:45
Burpee broad jump 4:17 5:29
Run 5 5:20 4:34
Row 4:32 4:43
Run 6 5:11 8:10
Farmers carry 1:52 2:42
Run 7 5:13 4:21
Sandbag lunges 4:34 4:40
Run 8 4:20 5:16
Wall balls 6:37 5:15
Roxzone 4:35 3:12
Finish 1:15:51 1:16:25

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race John Josh Gap
Cardiff 2026 Open Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:16:26 1:16:25 0:01 · Josh faster
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