Liam vs Luke

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Liam McDonald

1:32:14 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
1841st of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 9 results

Luke Wellings

1:21:22 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1578th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Liam: Birmingham 2024, Open Men · Luke: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Liam and Luke sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Liam: strongest on Carry (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 11%).Luke: strongest on Pull (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 36%).

See the numbers
Part Liam: faster than Luke: faster than
Ski 39% 59%
Push 36% 45%
Pull 11% 92%
BBJ 26% 69%
Row 44% 81%
Carry 69% 74%
Lunges 28% 61%
Wall balls 61% 81%
Roxzone 16% 67%
Runs 42% 36%

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

Part by part

Part Liam Luke
SkiErg 39% 59%
Sled push 36% 45%
Sled pull 11% 92%
Burpee broad jump 26% 69%
Row 44% 81%
Farmers carry 69% 74%
Sandbag lunges 28% 61%
Wall balls 61% 81%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 67%
Runs (8 km) 42% 36%

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

Liam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:32:14
5:074:294:423:045:216:415:527:105:194:505:001:554:495:595:536:0910:02
Luke · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:21:22
5:224:264:563:235:023:455:144:505:294:315:181:525:234:495:415:345:57
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.Liam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 42:04 running, 40:17 at the stations and 10:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:10).Below, Luke · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 42:24 running, 33:10 at the stations and 5:57 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:34).

See the numbers
Part Liam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men Luke · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:07 5:22
SkiErg 4:29 4:26
Run 2 4:42 4:56
Sled push 3:04 3:23
Run 3 5:21 5:02
Sled pull 6:41 3:45
Run 4 5:52 5:14
Burpee broad jump 7:10 4:50
Run 5 5:19 5:29
Row 4:50 4:31
Run 6 5:00 5:18
Farmers carry 1:55 1:52
Run 7 4:49 5:23
Sandbag lunges 5:59 4:49
Run 8 5:53 5:41
Wall balls 6:09 5:34
Roxzone 10:02 5:57
Finish 1:32:14 1:21:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Liam Luke Gap
Birmingham 2024 Open Men · 25 Oct 2024 1:32:14 1:32:14 level
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