Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Aaron Myles and Gareth Hickey pulled 5:02 ahead of the field.
The clock says 8:01 faster, but the races themselves got 2:59 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Dublin 2025 → Cardiff 2026: 4:45 on the field in 168 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.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men58:27 PB23/605Beat 96%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men59:5934/522Beat 94%
↑ 168 days after Dublin 2025, with Gareth Hickey 4:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:45 better than the field: 6:02 faster on the clock, against 1:17 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:17 faster This pair6:02 faster -
Bilbao7 Feb 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:1399/861Beat 89%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:52275/777Beat 65%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:0143/230Beat 81%
↑ 166 days after Cardiff 2025, with Gareth Hickey 0:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, so 0:17 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This pair1:59 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:0097/269Beat 64%