Progress against the field
From London Excel 2025 to Manchester 2026, david bailey got 0:39 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:07 slower, so 0:28 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
7 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:42207/293Beat 29%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Charlotte Bailey 2:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:52 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:25 faster for everyone, so 2:27 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 faster This pair2:52 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:03 PB348/1198Beat 71%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Relay · Mixed1:07:5118/71Beat 75%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:16:18446/1463Beat 70%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025 0:39 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:28 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:07 slower for everyone, so this was 0:39 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:07 slower This athlete0:28 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:29:341149/1474Beat 22%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:50 PB837/2779Beat 70%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:28:43781/956Beat 18%