Progress against the field
From Glasgow 2025 to Manchester 2026, Mark Macdonald got 3:29 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:54 slower, so 1:35 faster on the clock looks worse than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 224 days between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 1:15 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
5 races · 5 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:00:52 PB22/69Beat 68%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:07:38 PB39/130Beat 70%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 2:14 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:30 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:44 slower for everyone: 2:14 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:44 slower This athlete1:30 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:09:0847/156Beat 70%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 1:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 1:10 slower for everyone and the clock still says 0:05 faster: 1:15 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:10 slower This athlete0:05 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Men1:09:1349/134Beat 63%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:02:2531/83Beat 63%