Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Birmingham 2025, David Farr has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 7:33 faster, but the races themselves got 7:40 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 347 days between Manchester 2024 and Birmingham 2025, cost 5:09 on 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:52:581666/1821Beat 9%
↑ 347 days after Manchester 2024 5:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:09 behind the field: 1:43 slower on the clock, against 3:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:26 faster This athlete1:43 slower -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:51:15 PB1127/1206Beat 7%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 5:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:02 better than the field: 9:16 faster on the clock, against 4:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:14 faster This athlete9:16 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men2:00:311839/1916Beat 4%