Progress against the field
Between Warsaw 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Jamie Forrest pulled 1:19 ahead of the field.
The races themselves barely changed, so 1:17 faster on the clock is the real picture.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 236 days between Warsaw 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 4:34 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 · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men59:13 PB41/605Beat 93%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Ben Kell 0:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:14 faster for everyone, so 0:32 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This pair2:46 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:01157/913Beat 83%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 3:15 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:30 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:45 faster for everyone: 3:15 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete1:30 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:04:34 PB197/484Beat 59%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:31 PB467/2779Beat 83%
↑ 236 days after Warsaw 2025 4:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:47 slower for everyone and the clock still says 2:47 faster: 4:34 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:47 slower This athlete2:47 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:59186/1099Beat 83%
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Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:18128/715Beat 82%