Progress against the field
Simon Neale has dropped 5:20 behind the field from Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
The clock says 1:12 faster, but the races themselves got 6:32 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
6 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:19:31 PB399/600Beat 34%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Dean Clarke 0:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:08 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:36 faster for everyone, so 0:28 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:08 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:50:51 PB340/359Beat 5%
↑ 221 days after London Olympia 2026 0:51 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:38 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:29 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:51 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:29 faster This athlete0:38 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:39225/271Beat 17%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:51:29806/897Beat 10%
↑ 153 days after Birmingham 2025 4:29 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:03 faster for everyone, so 4:29 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:03 faster This athlete0:34 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:52:031459/1600Beat 9%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Relay · Mixed1:32:4654/57Beat 5%