Graeme vs James

CAN CAN · Open Men · 1 result

Graeme Buchan

1:59:29 best Open Men time · Toronto 2024
958th of 1,043 place in that race · 1,043 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

James Powell

1:55:00 best Open Men time · Atlanta 2025
1078th of 1,248 place in that race · 1,248 Open Men finishers

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

Graeme: Toronto 2024, Open Men · James: Atlanta 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Graeme and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Graeme: strongest on Runs (faster than 23% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 2%).James: strongest on BBJ (faster than 49% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 3%).

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Part Graeme: faster than James: faster than
Ski 18% 33%
Push 2% 3%
Pull 3% 20%
BBJ 3% 49%
Row 10% 14%
Carry 3% 28%
Lunges 17% 21%
Wall balls 5% 42%
Roxzone 19% 13%
Runs 23% 10%

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

Part by part

Part Graeme James
SkiErg 18% 33%
Sled push 2% 3%
Sled pull 3% 20%
Burpee broad jump 3% 49%
Row 10% 14%
Farmers carry 3% 28%
Sandbag lunges 17% 21%
Wall balls 5% 42%
Roxzone (moving) 19% 13%
Runs (8 km) 23% 10%

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

Graeme · Toronto 2024 · Open Men1:59:29
5:524:565:295:416:558:456:3211:006:075:495:443:285:447:147:3311:2211:26
James · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men1:55:00
3:574:456:245:036:446:497:175:548:055:387:392:357:287:149:387:2712:23
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.Graeme · Toronto 2024 · Open Men: 49:56 running, 58:15 at the stations and 11:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:22).Below, James · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men: 57:11 running, 45:25 at the stations and 12:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:27).

See the numbers
Part Graeme · Toronto 2024 · Open Men James · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:52 3:57
SkiErg 4:56 4:45
Run 2 5:29 6:24
Sled push 5:41 5:03
Run 3 6:55 6:44
Sled pull 8:45 6:49
Run 4 6:32 7:17
Burpee broad jump 11:00 5:54
Run 5 6:07 8:05
Row 5:49 5:38
Run 6 5:44 7:39
Farmers carry 3:28 2:35
Run 7 5:44 7:28
Sandbag lunges 7:14 7:14
Run 8 7:33 9:38
Wall balls 11:22 7:27
Roxzone 11:26 12:23
Finish 1:59:29 1:55:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Graeme James Gap
Toronto 2024 Open Men · 5 Oct 2024 1:59:29 1:59:33 0:04 · Graeme faster
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