Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2022 to Cardiff 2026, Ben Wicks has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 13:10 faster, but the races themselves got 12:57 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 551 days between Birmingham 2024 and Cardiff 2026, cost 16:20 on 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
8 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:18 PB234/586Beat 60%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:04629/848Beat 26%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:27:08277/466Beat 41%
↑ 551 days after Birmingham 2024 16:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:10 slower on the clock in a race that was 7:10 faster for everyone: 16:20 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →7:10 faster This athlete9:10 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:17:58 PB241/816Beat 71%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 18:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
23:07 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:41 faster for everyone, so 18:26 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete23:07 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:41:05894/1182Beat 24%
↑ 371 days after Birmingham 2022 1:53 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:47 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:06 faster for everyone: 1:53 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:06 faster This athlete0:47 slower -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Men1:08:32 PB139/467Beat 70%
↑ 371 days after Birmingham 2022, with Dean Connolly 3:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:52 better than the field: 4:40 faster on the clock, against 0:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This pair4:40 faster -
Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:40:18761/960Beat 21%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Men1:13:12193/358Beat 46%