Progress against the field
Laura Fahy and Darren Marsden have dropped 8:07 behind the field from Manchester 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
The clock says 0:58 slower, but the races themselves got 7:09 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 374 days between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, cost 11:03 on 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Darren Marsden, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Women1:13:37 PB188/1246Beat 85%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Louise Tweedie 1:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:39 faster for everyone, so 1:11 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:39 faster This pair2:50 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:21787/1159Beat 32%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Darren Marsden 11:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:46 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:17 faster for everyone: 11:03 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair8:46 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:16:2783/399Beat 79%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · MixedDNF—
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:35 PB435/954Beat 54%
↑ 172 days after London 2025, with Darren Marsden 0:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:13 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:13 faster This pair1:21 faster -
London3 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:56531/956Beat 45%
↑ 99 days after Manchester 2025, with Darren Marsden 2:48 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:48 better than the field: 6:27 faster on the clock, against 3:39 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:39 faster This pair6:27 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:23531/733Beat 28%