Progress against the field
Mick van de Vaarst has gained 3:49 on the field from Heerenveen 2025 to Heerenveen 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 6:40 quicker, so 10:29 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 257 days between Heerenveen 2025 and Amsterdam 2026, still ended 3:15 ahead of the field.
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
3 races · 3 events
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:35 PB249/966Beat 74%
↑ 113 days after Amsterdam 2026 0:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 better than the field: 3:07 faster on the clock, against 2:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete3:07 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:18:42160/570Beat 72%
↑ 257 days after Heerenveen 2025 3:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:07 faster for everyone, so 3:15 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:07 faster This athlete7:22 faster -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:04646/1217Beat 47%