Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Chris Speed lost 7:50 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:23 quicker, so 6:27 slower on the clock looks better 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
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:48675/1442Beat 53%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025 7:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:50 behind the field: 6:27 slower on the clock, against 1:23 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This athlete6:27 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Relay · Mixed1:05:3913/71Beat 82%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:21 PB969/2779Beat 65%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:12 PB177/954Beat 81%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025, with Kate Speed 7:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:16 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:26 faster for everyone, so 7:50 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 faster This pair9:16 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:28364/841Beat 57%