Progress against the field
Michelle Powell has dropped 5:59 behind the field from Cardiff 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 6:06 quicker, so 0:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 188 days between Cardiff 2025 and London Excel 2025, cost 5:25 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:24:37 PB145/545Beat 73%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026 4:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:43 faster for everyone, so 4:26 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This athlete7:09 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:31:46181/351Beat 48%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 5:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:09 faster for everyone: 5:00 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:09 faster This athlete3:51 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:27:55490/1379Beat 65%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025 5:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:14 faster for everyone: 5:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This athlete3:11 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:24:44212/587Beat 64%