Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to London Excel 2025, the field gained 21:48 on Dave Smith.
The clock says 12:30 slower, but the races themselves got 9:18 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 368 days between Manchester 2024 and Dublin 2025, cost 2:25 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
15 races · 12 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:57:441143/1159Beat 1%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · MenDNF—
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:23:52260/312Beat 17%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:36283/566Beat 50%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:01 PB21/887Beat 98%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:55231/794Beat 71%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:111198/2771Beat 57%
↑ 22 days after Dublin 2025 17:11 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:11 behind the field: 16:42 slower on the clock, against 0:29 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:29 faster This athlete16:42 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:29 PB57/955Beat 94%
↑ 368 days after Manchester 2024 2:25 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:10 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:35 faster for everyone, so 2:25 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete2:10 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:0951/889Beat 94%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:29 PB227/1010Beat 78%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:06:39115/1206Beat 91%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 2:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:02 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:14 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:12 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:14 faster This athlete2:02 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:10498/894Beat 44%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:08:41127/1916Beat 93%
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London26 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:14:03557/1003Beat 45%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · MenDNF—