Progress against the field
From Glasgow 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Alex Birbeck got 3:39 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:39 quicker, so 8:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 224 days between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 2:30 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
15 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Pro · Men57:5083/476Beat 83%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:36 PB13/693Beat 98%
↑ 22 days after Geneva 2026 0:50 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:31 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:21 faster for everyone, so 0:50 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 faster This athlete1:31 faster -
Geneva9 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:02:0713/1414Beat 99%
↑ 197 days after Mechelen 2026 3:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:17 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:51 slower for everyone: 3:08 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 slower This athlete1:17 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:39163/533Beat 69%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 2:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:41 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:15 slower for everyone: 2:26 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:15 slower This athlete2:41 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:40 PB33/493Beat 93%
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Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:03:2420/561Beat 96%
↑ 155 days after Birmingham 2025 1:09 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:57 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:06 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:09 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This athlete1:57 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men57:3964/1815Beat 97%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:09:58 PB161/467Beat 66%
↑ 69 days after Rome 2025 0:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:07 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:58 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:58 faster This athlete3:07 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men55:59 PB27/1099Beat 98%
↑ 172 days after London 2025, with Bradley Johnson 2:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:12 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:58 faster for everyone, so 2:14 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:58 faster This pair4:12 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:2193/1821Beat 95%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 2:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:30 better than the field: 3:33 faster on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete3:33 faster -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:13:0595/276Beat 66%
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Riga31 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:4317/252Beat 93%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:00:11100/1010Beat 90%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:54195/1445Beat 87%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:30 PB384/795Beat 52%