Progress against the field
From Manchester 2023 to Glasgow 2025, Matt Skillen and Peter Wood have moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 5:20 quicker, so 5:28 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 636 days between Manchester 2023 and Birmingham 2024, still ended 2:25 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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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men59:00 PB62/1105Beat 94%
↑ 138 days after Birmingham 2024, with Peter Wood 2:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:51 faster for everyone, so 2:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This pair0:34 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men59:3431/875Beat 97%
↑ 636 days after Manchester 2023, with Peter Wood 2:25 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:29 faster for everyone, so 2:25 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:29 faster This pair4:54 faster -
Manchester28 Jan 2023Doubles Open · Men1:04:2825/229Beat 89%