Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Birmingham 2026, the field gained 0:19 on Rich Howells.
The clock says 8:03 faster, but the races themselves got 8:22 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 398 days between Birmingham 2024 and Madrid 2025, cost 3:27 on 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
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:31:40 PB258/359Beat 28%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026 3:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:19 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:44 faster for everyone, so 3:35 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete7:19 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:26 PB200/491Beat 59%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:38:59414/551Beat 25%
↑ 55 days after Madrid 2025 0:27 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:27 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:54 faster for everyone, so 0:27 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:54 faster This athlete0:27 faster -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:261062/1312Beat 19%
↑ 398 days after Birmingham 2024 3:27 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:17 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:44 faster for everyone, which leaves this 3:27 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete0:17 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:39:431532/1916Beat 20%
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Stockholm2 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:53:12288/302Beat 5%