Progress against the field
James Hart has gained 5:09 on the field from Cardiff 2025 to Manchester 2026.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 5:08 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 3:51 on the field in 145 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
12 races · 9 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:18:1773/130Beat 44%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 0:54 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:55 slower on the clock, but the race was 2:49 slower for everyone, so this was 0:54 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 slower This athlete1:55 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:16:22 PB251/467Beat 46%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 0:24 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:24 better than the field: 2:19 faster on the clock, against 1:55 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:55 faster This athlete2:19 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:50:361641/1821Beat 10%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 17:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
18:55 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 17:52 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete18:55 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:18:41101/156Beat 35%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 3:51 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:44 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:53 faster for everyone, so 3:51 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:53 faster This athlete4:44 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:23:2576/112Beat 32%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men2:09:311425/1445Beat 1%
↑ 47 days after Manchester 2025 1:01:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
58:42 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:14 faster for everyone: 1:01:56 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:14 faster This athlete58:42 slower -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:49226/1191Beat 81%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024 1:29 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:52 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:29 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:52 faster This athlete2:23 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:11:35 PB93/122Beat 24%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:07:30 PB259/875Beat 70%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:13:12285/1916Beat 85%
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New York1 Jun 2024Individual Open · Men1:10:04 PB66/895Beat 93%