Progress against the field
Mark Phillips has dropped 6:42 behind the field from Belgium 2025 to Cardiff 2026.
The clock says 2:40 slower, but the races themselves got 4:02 quicker for everyone.
200 days between Belgium 2025 and Birmingham 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 3:04 behind 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 · Men1:19:04 PB386/605Beat 36%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Greg Rees 3:30 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:52 faster for everyone, so 3:30 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:52 faster This pair4:22 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:45:24793/913Beat 13%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025 3:38 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:22 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:00 faster for everyone, so 3:38 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:00 faster This athlete0:22 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:261529/1815Beat 16%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Greg Rees 0:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:57 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:17 faster for everyone, so 0:20 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair1:57 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:45:461577/1821Beat 13%
↑ 200 days after Belgium 2025 3:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:02 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:02 faster for everyone: 3:04 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This athlete3:02 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:25:23235/269Beat 13%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:42:44 PB1378/1638Beat 16%