Progress against the field
From Manchester 2025 to London Excel 2025, Ben Allon-Smith has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 7:37 quicker, so 7:27 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Relay · Men53:081/81Beat 99%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men59:46 PB20/445Beat 96%
↑ 62 days after Manchester 2026 0:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:26 better than the field: 3:48 faster on the clock, against 3:22 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:22 faster This athlete3:48 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:03:3414/121Beat 88%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men57:02 PB8/2779Beat 100%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 1:45 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:17 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, so 1:45 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete1:17 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men53:07 PB3/667Beat 100%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men58:193/1600Beat 100%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 1:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:36 faster for everyone, so 1:14 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete3:50 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:02:0914/1401Beat 99%
↑ 126 days after Manchester 2025 0:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:59 faster for everyone, so 0:21 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete2:20 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Pro · Men58:46 PB12/66Beat 82%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:04:2965/1191Beat 95%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:11:5342/147Beat 71%