Progress against the field
From Glasgow 2025 to Malaga 2026, Callum Watkins got 2:17 faster than the field.
The clock says 8:07 faster, but the races themselves got 5:50 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 267 days between Glasgow 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 3:31 ahead of 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
3 races · 3 events
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:04:44 PB30/561Beat 95%
↑ 133 days after London Excel 2025 1:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:18 faster for everyone, so 1:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 faster This athlete1:04 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:48164/2771Beat 94%
↑ 267 days after Glasgow 2025 3:31 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:03 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:32 faster for everyone, so 3:31 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:32 faster This athlete7:03 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:51335/1588Beat 79%