Darren vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Darren Driscoll

1:57:15 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
1962nd of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

James Faldo

1:38:06 best Open Men time · Málaga 2026
1787th of 2,072 place in that race · 2,072 Open Men finishers

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

Darren: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · James: Málaga 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Darren and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Darren: strongest on Carry (faster than 48% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 2%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 7%).

See the numbers
Part Darren: faster than James: faster than
Ski 10% 30%
Push 10% 46%
Pull 20% 43%
BBJ 19% 10%
Row 12% 7%
Carry 48% 11%
Lunges 7% 28%
Wall balls 3% 35%
Roxzone 16% 15%
Runs 2% 10%

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

Part by part

Part Darren James
SkiErg 10% 30%
Sled push 10% 46%
Sled pull 20% 43%
Burpee broad jump 19% 10%
Row 12% 7%
Farmers carry 48% 11%
Sandbag lunges 7% 28%
Wall balls 3% 35%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 15%
Runs (8 km) 2% 10%

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

Darren · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:57:15
7:435:017:413:516:025:468:137:416:365:206:342:086:337:0610:0214:226:36
James · Málaga 2026 · Open Men1:38:06
5:144:365:272:585:364:485:547:566:255:426:122:516:255:526:476:488:42
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.Darren · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 59:24 running, 51:15 at the stations and 6:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:22).Below, James · Málaga 2026 · Open Men: 48:00 running, 41:31 at the stations and 8:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:56).

See the numbers
Part Darren · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men James · Málaga 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:43 5:14
SkiErg 5:01 4:36
Run 2 7:41 5:27
Sled push 3:51 2:58
Run 3 6:02 5:36
Sled pull 5:46 4:48
Run 4 8:13 5:54
Burpee broad jump 7:41 7:56
Run 5 6:36 6:25
Row 5:20 5:42
Run 6 6:34 6:12
Farmers carry 2:08 2:51
Run 7 6:33 6:25
Sandbag lunges 7:06 5:52
Run 8 10:02 6:47
Wall balls 14:22 6:48
Roxzone 6:36 8:42
Finish 1:57:15 1:38:06

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Darren James Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 1:57:15 1:56:57 0:18 · James faster
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