Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Sophie Allen lost 1:56 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:09 quicker, so 0:47 slower 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 Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:18:12 PB125/585Beat 79%
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Gdansk10 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:19:21158/653Beat 76%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:30:18168/400Beat 58%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025 1:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:47 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:09 faster for everyone: 1:56 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:09 faster This athlete0:47 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Women1:29:31 PB764/1542Beat 51%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:30:54191/247Beat 23%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Women1:19:0892/397Beat 77%
↑ 370 days after Birmingham 2023, with Natalie Giles 9:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:08 faster for everyone, so 9:00 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This pair11:08 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Women1:30:16312/460Beat 32%