Progress against the field
Between Manchester 2023 and Birmingham 2024, Paul Smart lost 2:01 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:37 quicker, so 5:36 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
4 races · 4 events
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:19:17 PB571/719Beat 21%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:54:55 PB1796/1916Beat 6%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023 0:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:13 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:41 faster for everyone, so 0:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:41 faster This athlete5:13 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men2:00:081114/1182Beat 6%
↑ 266 days after Manchester 2023 2:33 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:23 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:56 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:33 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:56 faster This athlete0:23 faster -
Manchester28 Jan 2023Individual Open · Men2:00:31598/649Beat 8%