Progress against the field
From Manchester 2024 to Birmingham 2025, the field gained 2:21 on Martin Edgar.
Over the same races everyone got 5:59 quicker, so 3:38 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 224 days between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 4:20 ahead of 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 · Men1:07:02159/600Beat 74%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Ed De Carvalho Smith 5:10 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:10 behind the field: 3:34 slower on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair3:34 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:03:28 PB82/522Beat 84%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:20:02 PB578/1600Beat 64%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 4:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:23 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 4:20 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete5:23 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:25889/1445Beat 39%
↑ 47 days after Manchester 2025 6:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:50 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:14 faster for everyone: 6:04 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:14 faster This athlete2:50 slower -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:22:35599/1191Beat 50%
↑ 76 days after Manchester 2024 0:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, so 0:37 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete1:05 faster -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:23:40714/1206Beat 41%