Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Ian Norris and Peter Smith pulled 3:42 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 0:52 quicker, so 4:34 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Men, with Peter Smith, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:36:13 PB995/1035Beat 4%
↑ 331 days after London Excel 2025, with Peter Smith 3:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:34 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:52 faster for everyone, so 3:42 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:52 faster This pair4:34 faster -
Riga30 May 2026Individual Open · Men2:10:35 PB859/882Beat 3%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:39:44371/391Beat 5%
↑ 49 days after Manchester 2026, with Peter Smith 2:30 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:30 behind the field: 0:21 slower on the clock, against 2:09 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:09 faster This pair0:21 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:39:23377/404Beat 7%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:40:472059/2102Beat 2%