Progress against the field
From Warsaw 2025 to Birmingham 2025, the field gained 3:08 on Martin Brooker.
Over the same races everyone got 0:37 slower, so 3:45 slower on the clock looks worse 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
9 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:53391/1035Beat 62%
↑ 353 days after Dublin 2025, with Noel Porteous 3:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:03 slower for everyone and the clock still says 2:59 faster: 3:02 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:03 slower This pair2:59 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:28 PB89/600Beat 85%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Ben Anthony 0:33 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:19 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:52 faster for everyone, so 0:33 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:52 faster This pair0:19 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Relay · Men1:06:4027/81Beat 67%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:47301/1815Beat 83%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:28 PB588/1372Beat 57%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:52304/777Beat 61%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:46627/1821Beat 66%
↑ 172 days after London 2025 0:25 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:20 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:05 faster for everyone: 0:25 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:05 faster This athlete0:20 slower -
London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:26750/1917Beat 61%
↑ 21 days after Warsaw 2025 2:43 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:43 behind the field: 3:25 slower on the clock, against 0:42 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:42 slower This athlete3:25 slower -
Warsaw12 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:01 PB234/768Beat 70%