Progress against the field
Between Malaga 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Michelle Hughes lost 1:36 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:11 quicker, so 4:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 215 days between Malaga 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 12:30 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:34:54453/560Beat 19%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:35:47198/389Beat 49%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 14:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:56 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:10 faster for everyone: 14:06 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:10 faster This athlete10:56 slower -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:07219/1198Beat 82%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:28:56 PB691/1155Beat 40%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Women1:24:51 PB248/829Beat 70%
↑ 215 days after Malaga 2025 12:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:01 faster for everyone, so 12:30 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:01 faster This athlete15:31 faster -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:40:22365/510Beat 28%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:46 PB92/841Beat 89%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Women1:30:35154/285Beat 46%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 2:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:49 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:09 faster for everyone, so 2:20 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:09 faster This athlete0:49 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Women1:31:24221/564Beat 61%