Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2023 to Cardiff 2025, the field gained 16:01 on Paul Cussell.
The clock says 7:42 slower, but the races themselves got 8:19 quicker for everyone.
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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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men2:05:141366/1401Beat 3%
↑ 217 days after Birmingham 2024 16:35 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:57 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:38 faster for everyone: 16:35 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:38 faster This athlete12:57 slower -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:52:17 PB1773/1916Beat 8%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 0:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:15 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:41 faster for everyone, so 0:34 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete5:15 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:57:321097/1182Beat 7%