Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2024 to Cardiff 2025, Mel Norris has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 9:51 quicker, so 9:38 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Manchester 2025 → Cardiff 2025: 7:08 in 126 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
5 races · 5 events
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Women1:37:08 PB284/400Beat 29%
↑ 126 days after Manchester 2025 7:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:51 faster for everyone, so 7:08 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete9:59 faster -
Belgium5 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:36:17 PB660/722Beat 9%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Individual Open · Women1:47:07436/539Beat 19%
↑ 76 days after Manchester 2024 12:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:51 faster for everyone: 12:42 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:51 faster This athlete8:51 slower -
Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Women1:38:16206/285Beat 28%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 5:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:09 faster for everyone, so 5:21 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:09 faster This athlete8:30 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Women1:46:46436/564Beat 23%