Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and London Excel 2025, Ian Owens pulled 4:26 ahead of the field.
The clock says 10:04 faster, but the races themselves got 5:38 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2025 → London Excel 2025: 4:04 in 43 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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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:17:31 PB414/484Beat 15%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:03 PB1431/2771Beat 48%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 4:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:04 better than the field: 7:06 faster on the clock, against 3:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete7:06 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:091200/1821Beat 34%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 0:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:36 faster for everyone, so 0:22 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete2:58 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:07487/639Beat 24%