Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2025 and Manchester 2026, Lee Ashurst pulled 14:02 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:14 quicker, so 18:16 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
271 days between Manchester 2025 and Birmingham 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 10:50 better than 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
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:27:52 PB535/693Beat 23%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:11 PB632/1463Beat 57%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 3:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 3:12 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete4:15 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:34 PB117/401Beat 71%
↑ 383 days after Birmingham 2024, with Kate Ashurst 3:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:05 better than the field: 8:09 faster on the clock, against 5:04 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:04 faster This pair8:09 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:24:26743/1600Beat 54%
↑ 271 days after Manchester 2025 10:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:01 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:11 faster for everyone, so 10:50 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:11 faster This athlete14:01 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:38:27987/1191Beat 17%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:43517/894Beat 42%