Progress against the field
Nic Ford has gained 8:56 on the field from Manchester 2025 to Birmingham 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 4:35 quicker, so 13:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Manchester 2025 → Cardiff 2025: 9:04 in 126 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
4 races · 4 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:25:57 PB675/794Beat 15%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:43:30 PB439/523Beat 16%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025 0:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:28 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:36 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete2:28 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:45:581285/1401Beat 8%
↑ 126 days after Manchester 2025 9:04 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:03 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:59 faster for everyone, so 9:04 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete11:03 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Men1:57:011154/1191Beat 3%