Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2025 to Manchester 2026, Tom Whittaker got 8:03 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:39 quicker, so 11:42 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 11:06 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
3 races · 3 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:29647/1463Beat 56%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 3:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:03 behind the field: 2:00 slower on the clock, against 1:03 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete2:00 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:29 PB611/1821Beat 66%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 11:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
13:42 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:36 faster for everyone, so 11:06 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete13:42 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:111046/1401Beat 25%