David vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

David Ashton

1:31:52 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3961st of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Pro Men · 2 results

James Robinson

1:28:20 best Open Men time · Valencia 2025
914th of 1,474 place in that race · 1,474 Open Men finishers

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

David: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: Valencia 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where David and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.David: strongest on Carry (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 18%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 57% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 14%).

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Part David: faster than James: faster than
Ski 36% 36%
Push 30% 57%
Pull 29% 14%
BBJ 18% 21%
Row 47% 46%
Carry 78% 50%
Lunges 26% 31%
Wall balls 55% 28%
Roxzone 24% 42%
Runs 24% 47%

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

Part by part

Part David James
SkiErg 36% 36%
Sled push 30% 57%
Sled pull 29% 14%
Burpee broad jump 18% 21%
Row 47% 46%
Farmers carry 78% 50%
Sandbag lunges 26% 31%
Wall balls 55% 28%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 42%
Runs (8 km) 24% 47%

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

David · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:31:52
3:414:584:263:064:325:254:407:244:394:584:381:454:396:116:267:0113:31
James · Valencia 2025 · Open Men1:28:20
4:254:394:303:125:076:225:056:215:254:475:142:105:075:445:448:196:17
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.David · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:40 running, 40:49 at the stations and 13:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:24).Below, James · Valencia 2025 · Open Men: 40:37 running, 41:34 at the stations and 6:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:19).

See the numbers
Part David · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · Valencia 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:41 4:25
SkiErg 4:58 4:39
Run 2 4:26 4:30
Sled push 3:06 3:12
Run 3 4:32 5:07
Sled pull 5:25 6:22
Run 4 4:40 5:05
Burpee broad jump 7:24 6:21
Run 5 4:39 5:25
Row 4:58 4:47
Run 6 4:38 5:14
Farmers carry 1:45 2:10
Run 7 4:39 5:07
Sandbag lunges 6:11 5:44
Run 8 6:26 5:44
Wall balls 7:01 8:19
Roxzone 13:31 6:17
Finish 1:31:52 1:28:20

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race David James Gap
Cardiff 2026 Pro Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:45:40 1:44:34 1:06 · James faster
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