Progress against the field
From Johannesburg I 2025 to Johannesburg 2025, the field gained 5:38 on Benjamin Nortman and Nicole Herbert.
The clock says 1:43 slower, but the races themselves got 3:55 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Johannesburg I 2025 → Cape Town 2025: 9:03 on the field in 140 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:30:27172/302Beat 43%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:40:04386/594Beat 35%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Nicole Herbert 14:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
18:12 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:31 slower for everyone: 14:41 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 slower This pair18:12 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:52 PB228/547Beat 58%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025, with Nicole Herbert 9:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:03 better than the field: 16:29 faster on the clock, against 7:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →7:26 faster This pair16:29 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:38:21249/372Beat 33%