Progress against the field
Nick Payne and Rachael Abbey have gained 3:11 on the field from Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
The clock says 6:47 faster, but the races themselves got 3:36 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 189 days between Birmingham 2025 and Cardiff 2026, still ended 4:53 ahead of 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
6 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:17113/1159Beat 90%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Rachael Abbey 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 · Men1:11:40 PB108/693Beat 84%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:12 PB25/361Beat 93%
↑ 189 days after Birmingham 2025, with Rachael Abbey 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 -
EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:01:56 PB193/455Beat 58%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:38:54756/794Beat 5%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:04267/954Beat 72%