Progress against the field
Between Cardiff 2025 and Birmingham 2025, Liam Mcalear lost 3:56 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:36 quicker, so 1:20 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
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
5 races · 5 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:16:06 PB523/794Beat 34%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:501323/1821Beat 27%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 3:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:20 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:36 faster for everyone: 3:56 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete1:20 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:30 PB484/639Beat 24%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:25882/1105Beat 20%
↑ 123 days after Paris 2024, with Steven Keenan 5:20 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:20 better than the field: 8:03 faster on the clock, against 2:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This pair8:03 faster -
Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:31:28786/865Beat 9%