James vs Simon

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
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Part by part

Part James Simon
SkiErg 39% 44%
Sled push 21% 14%
Sled pull 25% 3%
Burpee broad jump 22% 21%
Row 36% 46%
Farmers carry 65% 25%
Sandbag lunges 22% 40%
Wall balls 26% 12%
Roxzone (moving) 19% 41%
Runs (8 km) 16% 21%

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

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
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
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.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).Below, 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).

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

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

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