Progress against the field
Between Barcelona 2025 and London Excel 2025, Nicholas Jaques pulled 4:35 ahead of the field.
The clock says 10:45 faster, but the races themselves got 6:10 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 180 days between Barcelona 2025 and Birmingham 2025, still ended 4:52 ahead of 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:29:01 PB1862/2779Beat 33%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025 0:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:45 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:02 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:17 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:02 faster This athlete2:45 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:461229/1821Beat 33%
↑ 180 days after Barcelona 2025 4:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:52 better than the field: 8:00 faster on the clock, against 3:08 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:08 faster This athlete8:00 faster -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:46669/795Beat 16%