Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and London Excel 2025, Luke O’Brien pulled 1:38 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:38 quicker, so 7:16 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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 Pro · Men1:09:24 PB203/693Beat 71%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:2241/246Beat 83%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:48 PB613/794Beat 23%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:19 PB113/863Beat 87%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:02:15 PB78/2779Beat 97%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 1:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:53 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, so 1:51 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete4:53 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:08144/1821Beat 92%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 0:13 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:23 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:36 faster for everyone, so 0:13 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete2:23 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:31171/1401Beat 88%