Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2024 and Birmingham 2026, Luke Colford lost 5:21 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 11:15 quicker, so 5:54 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 454 days between Glasgow 2024 and Cardiff 2025, still ended 5:54 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:59199/677Beat 71%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026 5:58 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:14 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:44 faster for everyone: 5:58 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:44 faster This athlete2:14 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:4594/529Beat 82%
↑ 236 days after Cardiff 2025 5:17 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:38 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:39 faster for everyone: 5:17 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:39 faster This athlete2:38 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men59:05 PB129/2102Beat 94%
↑ 370 days after London 2024, with Dom Speakman 2:09 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:48 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:57 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:09 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:57 faster This pair0:48 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:07 PB198/1401Beat 86%
↑ 454 days after Glasgow 2024 5:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:46 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:52 faster for everyone, so 5:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:52 faster This athlete10:46 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:2283/616Beat 87%
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London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men59:5352/984Beat 95%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:07:14245/875Beat 72%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:53599/1784Beat 66%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Men1:12:22213/558Beat 62%