Progress against the field
From London 2024 to London Excel 2025, Gavin Townsend has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 7:11 quicker, so 7:24 faster 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:47 PB629/2779Beat 77%
↑ 215 days after London 2025 0:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:30 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, so 0:12 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete1:30 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:07:13 PB379/1177Beat 68%
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London3 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:14:17507/1917Beat 74%
↑ 155 days after London 2024 0:25 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:29 faster for everyone, so 0:25 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:29 faster This athlete5:54 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:11260/688Beat 62%