Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2025 and Cardiff 2025, Mike McCarthy lost 12:08 to the field.
The clock says 10:09 slower, but the races themselves got 1:59 quicker for everyone.
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
9 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:43152/1035Beat 85%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Matthew Smith 0:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:29 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:36 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:29 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men57:11 PB9/566Beat 98%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:1264/478Beat 87%
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Warsaw16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:4160/175Beat 66%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:20:05 PB308/467Beat 34%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:12153/1177Beat 87%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:51194/563Beat 66%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:28366/639Beat 43%
↑ 126 days after Manchester 2025 12:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:09 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:59 faster for everyone: 12:08 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete10:09 slower -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:19 PB381/1191Beat 68%