Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Manchester 2026, David O’Kane got 2:53 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:39 quicker, so 6:32 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 4:43 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.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men57:26 PB17/605Beat 97%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:07:58143/1463Beat 90%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 1:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:47 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 1:50 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete0:47 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:48274/2102Beat 87%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:11 PB146/1821Beat 92%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 4:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:19 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:36 faster for everyone, so 4:43 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete7:19 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:30373/1401Beat 73%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:28226/736Beat 69%
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Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Relay · Mixed1:10:2415/34Beat 56%