Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Glasgow 2026, Ross Meldrum lost 13:16 to the field.
The clock says 4:25 slower, but the races themselves got 8:51 quicker for everyone.
224 days between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 5:58 behind 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
4 races · 4 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:36:11437/613Beat 29%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025 5:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:53 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:27 faster for everyone: 5:20 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:27 faster This athlete2:53 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:181284/1821Beat 30%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 5:58 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 5:58 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete4:55 slower -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:23 PB1009/1588Beat 37%
↑ 138 days after Birmingham 2024 1:58 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 5:21 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:58 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:21 faster This athlete3:23 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:31:461277/1916Beat 33%