Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Manchester 2026, Paul Dennett and James Willis pulled 5:08 ahead of the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 5:10 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
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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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:22 PB568/794Beat 29%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025, with James Willis 5:08 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:08 better than the field: 5:10 faster on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pair5:10 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Relay · Men1:29:06113/120Beat 6%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:23:32907/1099Beat 18%