Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg I 2025 and Johannesburg 2025, Nicole Herbert and Benjamin Nortman lost 5:38 to the field.
The clock says 1:43 slower, but the races themselves got 3:55 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Johannesburg I 2025 → Cape Town 2025: 9:03 in 140 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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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:40:04386/594Beat 35%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Benjamin Nortman 14:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:41 behind the field: 18:12 slower on the clock, against 3:31 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 slower This pair18:12 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:52 PB228/547Beat 58%
↑ 140 days after Johannesburg I 2025, with Benjamin Nortman 9:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:29 faster on the clock, and the race was 7:26 faster for everyone, so 9:03 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →7:26 faster This pair16:29 faster -
Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:38:21249/372Beat 33%