Progress against the field
From London Excel 2025 to Cardiff 2026, Megan Benfield and Michael Thomas got 7:36 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:31 quicker, so 9:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was London Excel 2025 → Malaga 2026: 5:08 on the field in 133 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
4 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:29247/560Beat 56%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:03 PB293/848Beat 65%
↑ 13 days after Malaga 2026, with Michael Thomas 2:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:28 better than the field: 2:40 faster on the clock, against 0:12 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:12 faster This pair2:40 faster -
Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:18:43245/546Beat 55%
↑ 133 days after London Excel 2025, with Michael Thomas 5:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:19 faster for everyone, so 5:08 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:19 faster This pair6:27 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:101006/1474Beat 32%