Andrew vs Chris

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Andrew Somers

1:26:51 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2133rd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 4 results

Chris Higgins

1:28:00 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
1657th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Andrew: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Chris: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Andrew and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Andrew: strongest on Lunges (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 17%).Chris: strongest on Ski (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 16%).

See the numbers
Part Andrew: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 17% 73%
Push 36% 20%
Pull 39% 29%
BBJ 64% 29%
Row 35% 70%
Carry 26% 32%
Lunges 76% 49%
Wall balls 37% 48%
Roxzone 51% 16%
Runs 41% 45%

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

Part by part

Part Andrew Chris
SkiErg 17% 73%
Sled push 36% 20%
Sled pull 39% 29%
Burpee broad jump 64% 29%
Row 35% 70%
Farmers carry 26% 32%
Sandbag lunges 76% 49%
Wall balls 37% 48%
Roxzone (moving) 51% 16%
Runs (8 km) 41% 45%

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

Andrew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:26:51
5:404:504:503:395:015:235:165:045:104:585:082:344:594:215:198:076:37
Chris · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:28:00
5:184:244:553:455:125:005:076:595:074:385:303:045:005:046:196:545:47
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.Andrew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 41:23 running, 38:56 at the stations and 6:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:07).Below, Chris · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 42:29 running, 39:48 at the stations and 5:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:59).

See the numbers
Part Andrew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Chris · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:40 5:18
SkiErg 4:50 4:24
Run 2 4:50 4:55
Sled push 3:39 3:45
Run 3 5:01 5:12
Sled pull 5:23 5:00
Run 4 5:16 5:07
Burpee broad jump 5:04 6:59
Run 5 5:10 5:07
Row 4:58 4:38
Run 6 5:08 5:30
Farmers carry 2:34 3:04
Run 7 4:59 5:00
Sandbag lunges 4:21 5:04
Run 8 5:19 6:19
Wall balls 8:07 6:54
Roxzone 6:37 5:47
Finish 1:26:51 1:28:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Andrew Chris Gap
Cardiff 2026 Open Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:27:58 1:28:00 0:02 · Andrew faster
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