Progress against the field
Between London 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Brian Thompson and James Barber kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:01 quicker, so 5:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 7:21 on the field in 145 days.
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
7 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:3461/605Beat 90%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with James Barber 0:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:36 faster for everyone, so 0:11 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair1:47 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:2142/430Beat 90%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with James Barber 1:29 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:11 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:18 faster for everyone: 1:29 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair1:11 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:30 PB16/207Beat 92%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:10233/2102Beat 89%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with James Barber 1:21 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:51 faster for everyone, so 1:21 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair0:30 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:40137/1177Beat 88%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025, with James Barber 7:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:21 better than the field: 7:47 faster on the clock, against 0:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This pair7:47 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:27121/269Beat 55%
↑ 27 days after London 2025, with James Barber 4:37 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:37 behind the field: 3:47 slower on the clock, against 0:50 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:50 faster This pair3:47 slower -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:40274/1010Beat 73%