Progress against the field
Neil Bester has dropped 0:49 behind the field from Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 1 2026.
The clock says 1:00 faster, but the races themselves got 1:49 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Cape Town 2025 → Johannesburg 2025: 3:10 in 133 days.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown.
Every race
9 races · 6 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:14 PB28/684Beat 96%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Relay · Men1:03:093/50Beat 94%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men59:136/99Beat 94%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men57:15 PB6/103Beat 94%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:15:51 PB52/191Beat 73%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025 3:59 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:02 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:01 faster for everyone, so 3:59 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:01 faster This athlete1:02 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:5318/112Beat 84%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 3:10 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:02 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:12 slower for everyone: 3:10 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →3:12 slower This athlete0:02 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:5142/146Beat 71%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:05:396/61Beat 90%
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Cape Town21 Sep 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:05:205/19Beat 74%