Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Greg McComb pulled 1:00 ahead of the field.
The clock says 6:21 faster, but the races themselves got 5:21 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 331 days between London Excel 2025 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 3:31 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
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:06:10 PB111/1442Beat 92%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025 3:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:23 faster for everyone, so 3:31 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This athlete4:54 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:14:48 PB208/533Beat 61%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:04503/2779Beat 82%
↑ 314 days after Manchester 2025 2:31 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:27 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:58 faster for everyone, so 2:31 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:58 faster This athlete1:27 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:13:04 PB641/1177Beat 46%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:31280/1191Beat 77%
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Hamburg2 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:16:34321/1248Beat 74%
↑ 196 days after Berlin 2024 6:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:52 faster on the clock in a race that was 2:40 slower for everyone: 6:32 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:40 slower This athlete3:52 faster -
Berlin20 Apr 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:26510/953Beat 47%