Progress against the field
Mark E Smith has dropped 6:26 behind the field from Malaga 2025 to Glasgow 2026.
The clock says 3:13 slower, but the races themselves got 3:13 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 215 days between Malaga 2025 and Birmingham 2025, cost 22:14 on the field.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:34:44989/1035Beat 4%
↑ 221 days after London Olympia 2026, with Alton Gregory 4:48 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:47 faster for everyone: 4:48 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:47 faster This pair4:01 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:30:43 PB736/813Beat 10%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:56:20561/613Beat 9%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025 15:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:48 better than the field: 18:15 faster on the clock, against 2:27 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:27 faster This athlete18:15 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men2:05:31404/404Beat 0%
↑ 432 days after Dublin 2024, with Glenn Thorpe 16:38 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:38 behind the field: 16:49 slower on the clock, against 0:11 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:11 slower This pair16:49 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men2:14:351566/1600Beat 2%
↑ 215 days after Malaga 2025 22:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
21:28 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:46 faster for everyone: 22:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:46 faster This athlete21:28 slower -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:53:07 PB937/966Beat 3%
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Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:48:42290/290Beat 0%
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Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · MenDNF—