Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2025 and Manchester 2026, paul jones pulled 12:27 ahead of the field.
The clock says 17:33 faster, but the races themselves got 5:06 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 271 days between Manchester 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 7:20 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.
Every race
10 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:12 PB625/1035Beat 40%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed2:15:46 PB1154/1159Beat 0%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:24:44475/600Beat 21%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:16:44330/522Beat 37%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:44:55438/529Beat 17%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 4:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:49 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:07 slower for everyone: 4:42 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete5:49 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:20:381652/2102Beat 21%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:06 PB2319/2779Beat 17%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 9:49 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:51 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, so 9:49 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete12:51 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:51:571656/1821Beat 9%
↑ 271 days after Manchester 2025 7:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:11 faster for everyone, so 7:20 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete10:31 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men2:02:281168/1191Beat 2%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:33:41686/719Beat 5%