Progress against the field
From London Excel 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Daniel Newson and Will Birch have moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
The clock says 1:46 faster, but the races themselves got 1:54 quicker for everyone.
185 days between Cardiff 2026 and Birmingham 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 2:40 behind 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 · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:07:06179/605Beat 70%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Will Birch 2:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:04 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:36 faster for everyone: 2:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:04 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:02 PB139/522Beat 73%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Will Birch 2:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:18 faster for everyone, so 2:32 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair2:50 faster -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:32:44 PB594/897Beat 34%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:52849/2102Beat 60%