Simon vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Simon Patterson

1:36:39 best Open Men time · London 2025
1568th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 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

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

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

This chart shows where Simon and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Row (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 3%).James: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 16%).

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Part Simon: faster than James: faster than
Ski 44% 39%
Push 14% 21%
Pull 3% 25%
BBJ 21% 22%
Row 46% 36%
Carry 25% 65%
Lunges 40% 22%
Wall balls 12% 26%
Roxzone 41% 19%
Runs 21% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Simon James
SkiErg 44% 39%
Sled push 14% 21%
Sled pull 3% 25%
Burpee broad jump 21% 22%
Row 46% 36%
Farmers carry 25% 65%
Sandbag lunges 40% 22%
Wall balls 12% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 41% 19%
Runs (8 km) 21% 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

Simon · London 2025 · Open Men1:36:39
4:284:254:193:319:357:044:546:505:144:435:022:334:585:307:1510:465:40
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.Simon · London 2025 · Open Men: 45:45 running, 45:23 at the stations and 5:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:46).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).

See the numbers
Part Simon · London 2025 · Open Men James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:28 4:09
SkiErg 4:25 4:56
Run 2 4:19 4:29
Sled push 3:31 3:19
Run 3 9:35 4:40
Sled pull 7:04 5:36
Run 4 4:54 4:44
Burpee broad jump 6:50 7:03
Run 5 5:14 4:50
Row 4:43 5:05
Run 6 5:02 4:32
Farmers carry 2:33 1:54
Run 7 4:58 4:43
Sandbag lunges 5:30 6:27
Run 8 7:15 7:27
Wall balls 10:46 9:20
Roxzone 5:40 14:01
Finish 1:36:39 1:37:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:37:07 1:37:07 level
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