Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2026, Sara Palmer and Ed Palmer lost 2:54 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:53 quicker, so 2:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:28138/586Beat 77%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Ed Palmer 1:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:56 behind the field: 0:19 slower on the clock, against 1:37 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:37 faster This pair0:19 slower -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:09 PB173/848Beat 80%
↑ 536 days after Manchester 2024, with Ed Palmer 0:58 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:47 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:45 faster for everyone, so 0:58 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:45 faster This pair0:47 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:23:02525/824Beat 36%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:56134/410Beat 67%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024, with Ed Palmer 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:31 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:31 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:31 faster This pair2:31 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:27262/894Beat 71%