Progress against the field
Alex Bywater has gained 1:42 on the field from Cardiff 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
The clock says 7:29 faster, but the races themselves got 5:47 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 188 days between Cardiff 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 2:32 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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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:53:08 PB483/528Beat 9%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 0:50 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:55 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:45 faster for everyone, so 0:50 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete0:55 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:54:032594/2771Beat 6%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025 2:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:02 faster for everyone, so 2:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:02 faster This athlete6:34 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men2:00:37619/639Beat 3%