Matthew vs Aaron

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Matthew Nicholls

1:27:49 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2232nd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Aaron Turnbull

1:27:48 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2231st of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Aaron: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Aaron sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Push (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 26%).Aaron: strongest on Runs (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 10%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Aaron: faster than
Ski 39% 34%
Push 95% 16%
Pull 49% 45%
BBJ 58% 11%
Row 69% 59%
Carry 31% 10%
Lunges 58% 70%
Wall balls 39% 10%
Roxzone 26% 55%
Runs 34% 83%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Aaron
SkiErg 39% 34%
Sled push 95% 16%
Sled pull 49% 45%
Burpee broad jump 58% 11%
Row 69% 59%
Farmers carry 31% 10%
Sandbag lunges 58% 70%
Wall balls 39% 10%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 55%
Runs (8 km) 34% 83%

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

Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:27:49
6:044:355:052:095:115:045:185:195:284:385:082:275:094:555:288:027:56
Aaron · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:27:48
4:334:383:584:234:135:114:148:304:094:444:243:024:144:344:4511:576:26
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.Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 42:51 running, 37:09 at the stations and 7:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:02) and the shortest the sled push (2:09).Below, Aaron · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 34:30 running, 46:58 at the stations and 6:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:57).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Aaron · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:04 4:33
SkiErg 4:35 4:38
Run 2 5:05 3:58
Sled push 2:09 4:23
Run 3 5:11 4:13
Sled pull 5:04 5:11
Run 4 5:18 4:14
Burpee broad jump 5:19 8:30
Run 5 5:28 4:09
Row 4:38 4:44
Run 6 5:08 4:24
Farmers carry 2:27 3:02
Run 7 5:09 4:14
Sandbag lunges 4:55 4:34
Run 8 5:28 4:45
Wall balls 8:02 11:57
Roxzone 7:56 6:26
Finish 1:27:49 1:27:48

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Aaron Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:27:49 1:27:48 0:01 · Aaron faster
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