Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Barnaby Preston and Jenson Bird pulled 2:19 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:14 quicker, so 4:33 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Men, with Jenson Bird, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men59:58 PB119/1035Beat 89%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Jenson Bird 2:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:33 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:14 faster for everyone, so 2:19 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This pair4:33 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:48124/566Beat 78%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Ellis Johnson 5:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:06 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:18 faster for everyone: 5:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair5:06 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:10:13 PB68/529Beat 87%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:01:42240/1815Beat 87%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:04:31249/1177Beat 79%