Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Chris Macbeth pulled 32:47 ahead of the field.
The clock says 42:03 faster, but the races themselves got 9:16 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 267 days between Glasgow 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 35:17 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
8 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:10:21 PB516/1035Beat 50%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:28 PB107/359Beat 70%
↑ 170 days after Barcelona 2026 0:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:16 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:16 faster This athlete1:20 faster -
Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:48341/1158Beat 71%
↑ 15 days after Cardiff 2026 1:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:42 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:00 faster for everyone, so 1:42 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:00 faster This athlete3:42 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:30342/913Beat 63%
↑ 49 days after Glasgow 2026 4:59 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:48 faster for everyone: 4:59 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:48 faster This athlete2:11 slower -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:32:31 PB355/500Beat 29%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:19470/1452Beat 68%
↑ 97 days after London Excel 2025 0:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:23 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:20 slower for everyone: 0:43 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:20 slower This athlete0:23 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:421006/2779Beat 64%
↑ 267 days after Glasgow 2025 35:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
35:17 better than the field: 38:49 faster on the clock, against 3:32 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:32 faster This athlete38:49 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:56:311504/1588Beat 5%