Progress against the field
Between Dublin 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Luke O'Byrne and Stephen Cross lost 5:22 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:27 quicker, so 2:55 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
283 days between Manchester 2026 and Birmingham 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 2:22 behind 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:23:09454/605Beat 25%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026, with Stephen Cross 2:22 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:26 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:22 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair1:26 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:24:35299/398Beat 25%
↑ 70 days after Dublin 2025, with Stephen Cross 3:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:21 slower for everyone: 3:00 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:21 slower This pair4:21 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:20:14 PB601/777Beat 23%