Progress against the field
MICHAEL PARKES has gained 3:35 on the field from London 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
The clock says 7:02 faster, but the races themselves got 3:27 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 215 days between London 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 3:20 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
4 races · 3 events
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:33:36332/466Beat 29%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 0:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:00 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:45 faster for everyone, so 0:15 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete2:00 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:362115/2771Beat 24%
↑ 215 days after London 2025 3:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:02 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, so 3:20 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete5:02 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:19:23 PB1155/2779Beat 58%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:40:381652/1917Beat 14%