Progress against the field
From Barcelona 2025 to London Olympia 2026, Alen Francis and Ross Blezard got 3:55 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:35 quicker, so 10:30 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 223 days between Barcelona 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 6:56 ahead of 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 · Men, with Ross Blezard, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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London Olympia24 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:15:31473/813Beat 42%
↑ 62 days after Manchester 2026, with Ross Blezard 1:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:12 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:33 faster for everyone, so 1:39 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:33 faster This pair5:12 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:43269/404Beat 33%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Ross Blezard 4:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:55 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:15 slower for everyone: 4:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:15 slower This pair5:55 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:14:48 PB1314/2102Beat 38%
↑ 223 days after Barcelona 2025, with Ross Blezard 6:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:13 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:17 faster for everyone, so 6:56 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:17 faster This pair11:13 faster -
Barcelona25 Apr 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:01676/781Beat 13%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:16 PB731/1445Beat 49%
↑ 103 days after London 2024 1:05 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:46 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:51 faster for everyone, so 1:05 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:51 faster This athlete2:46 faster -
London29 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:24:02340/688Beat 51%
↑ 35 days after Birmingham 2024 0:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:40 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:40 faster This athlete2:37 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:26:391027/1916Beat 46%