Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Glasgow 2026, Ian Macdonald lost 3:23 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:40 quicker, so 3:17 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
198 days between Glasgow 2025 and Oslo 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 4:53 better than 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
12 races · 8 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:33:14351/391Beat 10%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:28288/595Beat 52%
↑ 49 days after Manchester 2026 1:00 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:25 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:25 faster for everyone, so 1:00 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:25 faster This athlete1:25 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:24:53266/529Beat 50%
↑ 117 days after Oslo 2025 7:16 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:18 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:58 faster for everyone: 7:16 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:58 faster This athlete6:18 slower -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:19:30366/530Beat 31%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:35304/935Beat 68%
↑ 198 days after Glasgow 2025 4:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:17 faster for everyone, so 4:53 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:17 faster This athlete8:10 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed2:01:03 PB851/861Beat 1%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:24 PB410/1105Beat 63%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:45940/1588Beat 41%
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Stuttgart28 Sep 2024Individual Open · Men1:29:36445/770Beat 42%
↑ 161 days after Berlin 2024 6:57 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:57 behind the field: 11:12 slower on the clock, against 4:15 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:15 slower This athlete11:12 slower -
Berlin20 Apr 2024Individual Open · Men1:18:24 PB448/953Beat 53%
↑ 49 days after Glasgow 2024 5:49 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:03 faster on the clock, yet the race was 11:52 faster for everyone, so 5:49 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →11:52 faster This athlete6:03 faster -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:24:27785/1784Beat 56%
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Amsterdam4 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:37:04773/1079Beat 28%