Progress against the field
James McChrystal has gained 6:03 on the field from London Excel 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 1:45 quicker, so 7:48 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:40 PB754/1035Beat 27%
↑ 221 days after London Olympia 2026, with Samuel Bird 1:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:58 better than the field: 2:45 faster on the clock, against 0:47 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:47 faster This pair2:45 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:39:10 PB711/913Beat 22%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 6:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:48 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:45 faster for everyone, so 6:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This athlete7:48 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:21:25609/813Beat 25%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:46:582480/2771Beat 11%