Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Manchester 2026, Iain Batchen lost 4:29 to the field.
The clock says 3:26 slower, but the races themselves got 1:03 quicker for everyone.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:35:43388/551Beat 30%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 4:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:29 behind the field: 3:26 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete3:26 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:17 PB1053/1600Beat 34%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:38 PB186/494Beat 62%
↑ 237 days after Glasgow 2024, with Jenny Pickavance 0:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:14 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:26 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:12 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:26 faster This pair2:14 faster -
Glasgow2 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:52370/850Beat 57%