James vs David

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

James Blough

1:11:34 best Open Men time · New York 2025
183rd of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

David Smoot

1:18:07 best Open Men time · New York 2026
823rd of 4,637 place in that race · 4,637 Open Men finishers

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

James: New York 2025, Open Men · David: New York 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and David sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 48%).David: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 65%).

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Part James: faster than David: faster than
Ski 60% 99%
Push 91% 95%
Pull 99% 90%
BBJ 69% 65%
Row 98% 99%
Carry 63% 89%
Lunges 72% 70%
Wall balls 48% 78%
Roxzone 74% 76%
Runs 87% 72%

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

Part by part

Part James David
SkiErg 60% 99%
Sled push 91% 95%
Sled pull 99% 90%
Burpee broad jump 69% 65%
Row 98% 99%
Farmers carry 63% 89%
Sandbag lunges 72% 70%
Wall balls 48% 78%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 76%
Runs (8 km) 87% 72%

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 · New York 2025 · Open Men1:11:34
4:284:274:021:544:092:374:134:404:184:174:162:114:214:375:397:034:31
David · New York 2026 · Open Men1:18:07
4:374:004:432:154:593:434:555:055:014:124:591:495:054:596:265:595:28
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 · New York 2025 · Open Men: 35:26 running, 31:46 at the stations and 4:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:03) and the shortest the sled push (1:54).Below, David · New York 2026 · Open Men: 40:45 running, 32:02 at the stations and 5:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:59).

See the numbers
Part James · New York 2025 · Open Men David · New York 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:28 4:37
SkiErg 4:27 4:00
Run 2 4:02 4:43
Sled push 1:54 2:15
Run 3 4:09 4:59
Sled pull 2:37 3:43
Run 4 4:13 4:55
Burpee broad jump 4:40 5:05
Run 5 4:18 5:01
Row 4:17 4:12
Run 6 4:16 4:59
Farmers carry 2:11 1:49
Run 7 4:21 5:05
Sandbag lunges 4:37 4:59
Run 8 5:39 6:26
Wall balls 7:03 5:59
Roxzone 4:31 5:28
Finish 1:11:34 1:18:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James David Gap
New York 2026 Open Men · 28 May 2026 1:18:08 1:18:07 0:01 · David faster
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