Progress against the field
From London 2025 to Madrid 2025, Laura Kay got 6:47 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:46 quicker, so 8:33 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from London 2025 → Cardiff 2025: 6:02 in 27 days.
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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 10 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:18:48374/1246Beat 70%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:16:33 PB153/862Beat 82%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:21:45296/715Beat 59%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Women1:32:01594/867Beat 32%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Women1:36:341299/1599Beat 19%
↑ 370 days after London 2024, with Holly Smith 3:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:12 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:08 faster for everyone: 3:20 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:08 faster This pair0:12 slower -
Madrid27 Nov 2025Individual Open · Women1:36:39 PB371/640Beat 42%
↑ 181 days after Cardiff 2025 0:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:01 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:16 faster for everyone, so 0:45 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:16 faster This athlete1:01 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:25:55471/904Beat 48%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:37:40408/587Beat 31%
↑ 27 days after London 2025 6:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:32 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:30 faster for everyone, so 6:02 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:30 faster This athlete7:32 faster -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:45:121052/1368Beat 23%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Women1:36:22910/1150Beat 21%