Progress against the field
Alex Macdonald has dropped 3:34 behind the field from Manchester 2024 to Manchester 2025.
The clock says 1:52 slower, but the races themselves got 1:42 quicker for everyone.
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
9 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men51:36 PB2/600Beat 100%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026, with Adam Corlett 1:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:20 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, so 1:28 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair2:20 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:32:39744/887Beat 16%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed58:14 PB14/824Beat 98%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men53:562/404Beat 100%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Men1:13:44 PB100/206Beat 52%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:02:5640/1191Beat 97%
↑ 76 days after Manchester 2024 3:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:52 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:42 faster for everyone: 3:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete1:52 slower -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:01:04 PB24/1206Beat 98%
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Berlin20 Apr 2024Individual Open · Men1:03:3256/953Beat 94%
↑ 133 days after Frankfurt 2023 2:20 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:20 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 8:40 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:20 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →8:40 faster This athlete6:20 faster -
Frankfurt9 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:09:5289/843Beat 89%