Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Manchester 2026, Paul Preston and Sam West pulled 1:47 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:50 slower, so 0:03 slower on the clock looks worse 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 Pro · Men, with Sam West, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
10 races · 9 events
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Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:5027/330Beat 92%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:09:53150/460Beat 67%
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:00:37 PB6/414Beat 99%
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:2924/279Beat 91%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Sam West 1:47 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:03 slower on the clock, but the race was 1:50 slower for everyone, so this was 1:47 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:50 slower This pair0:03 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men56:26 PB31/312Beat 90%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:00:3061/263Beat 77%
↑ 215 days after London 2025, with Jon Melson 0:44 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:18 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:02 faster for everyone, so 0:44 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:02 faster This pair1:18 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:02:1835/116Beat 70%
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Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Pro · Men1:08:22 PB20/78Beat 74%
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London3 May 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:01:4871/236Beat 70%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:18 PB403/1105Beat 64%