Progress against the field
Rachael Abbey and Nick Payne have gained 3:11 on the field from Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 3:36 quicker, so 6:47 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
189 days between Birmingham 2025 and Cardiff 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 4:53 better than 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
4 races · 3 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:17113/1159Beat 90%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Nick Payne 1:42 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:05 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:37 faster for everyone: 1:42 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:37 faster This pair0:05 slower -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:23:28 PB128/547Beat 77%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:12 PB25/361Beat 93%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025, with Nick Payne 4:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:52 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:59 faster for everyone, so 4:53 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This pair6:52 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:04267/954Beat 72%