Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Dean Foster got 1:18 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:47 quicker, so 6:05 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 283 days between Manchester 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 2:47 ahead of 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.
Every race
9 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:19:38402/600Beat 33%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:10:55 PB100/693Beat 86%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026 2:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:44 faster for everyone, so 2:47 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete6:31 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:56:051166/1198Beat 3%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:18:30 PB135/206Beat 35%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:26177/551Beat 68%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 1:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:29 behind the field: 0:26 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete0:26 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:40 PB489/2102Beat 77%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:00509/1821Beat 72%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:08 PB473/956Beat 51%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:14:02593/947Beat 37%