Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Dublin 2025, Steve Owles got 2:13 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 8:13 quicker, so 10:26 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 217 days between Birmingham 2024 and Cardiff 2025, still ended 3:03 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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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:46:01 PB818/898Beat 9%
↑ 166 days after Cardiff 2025 0:50 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:45 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:35 faster for everyone, so 0:50 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete3:45 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:49:461311/1401Beat 6%
↑ 217 days after Birmingham 2024 3:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:41 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:38 faster for everyone, so 3:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:38 faster This athlete6:41 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:56:27777/816Beat 5%