Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Cardiff 2026, Noel OKelly and Olly Thompson kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:18 slower, so 1:26 slower on the clock looks worse 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 Pro · Men, with Olly Thompson, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:57 PB467/1035Beat 55%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:17:12262/302Beat 13%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Olly Thompson 0:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 slower on the clock, and the race was 1:18 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:18 slower This pair1:26 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:28 PB311/551Beat 44%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:15:46 PB251/312Beat 20%
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Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:14 PB376/733Beat 49%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2024, with Michelle OKELLY 0:15 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:03 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:18 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:15 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:18 faster This pair2:03 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:17474/894Beat 47%