Progress against the field
Alex Markham has gained 3:50 on the field from Manchester 2025 to Birmingham 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 4:45 quicker, so 8:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was London 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 3:46 on the field in 172 days.
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
7 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:42 PB878/1159Beat 24%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men58:5627/605Beat 96%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Jack Smith 1:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:13 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:36 faster for everyone, so 1:23 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair0:13 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men59:0929/478Beat 94%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Jack Smith 0:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:16 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:18 faster for everyone: 0:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair0:16 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men58:53 PB111/1815Beat 94%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:02 PB131/1600Beat 92%
↑ 172 days after London 2025 3:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:46 better than the field: 3:51 faster on the clock, against 0:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:05 faster This athlete3:51 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:53392/1917Beat 80%
↑ 99 days after Manchester 2025 0:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:44 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:40 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →4:40 faster This athlete4:44 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:37422/1191Beat 65%