Progress against the field
From Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026, Josh Banton and Darren Billenness got 0:27 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:24 quicker, so 4:51 faster 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 2:26 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
7 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:3394/312Beat 70%
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:32 PB131/605Beat 78%
↑ 283 days after Manchester 2026, with Darren Billenness 2:26 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:22 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, so 2:26 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This pair1:22 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:05:54230/794Beat 71%
↑ 48 days after London Excel 2025, with Darren Billenness 0:32 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:43 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:15 slower for everyone: 0:32 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →1:15 slower This pair0:43 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:05:11537/2102Beat 75%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Darren Billenness 2:21 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:21 better than the field: 4:12 faster on the clock, against 1:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair4:12 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:09:23468/1177Beat 60%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:26:31 PB613/889Beat 31%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Relay · Men1:08:0414/24Beat 42%