Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Manchester 2026, Ben Reaney pulled 6:53 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:39 quicker, so 10:32 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 12:09 on the field in 145 days.
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
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:16:04 PB334/605Beat 45%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026, with Tom Rabone 1:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:35 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:39 faster for everyone, so 1:56 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This pair4:35 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:39268/391Beat 32%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:21387/529Beat 27%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 5:16 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:16 behind the field: 4:13 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete4:13 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:08 PB1278/1821Beat 30%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 12:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:45 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:36 faster for everyone, so 12:09 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete14:45 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:47:53587/639Beat 8%