Progress against the field
From Manchester 2024 to London Excel 2025, the field gained 3:44 on Phill Steele and Richard Branson.
Over the same races everyone got 6:41 quicker, so 2:57 faster on the clock looks better 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 Open · Men, with Richard Branson, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 6 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:36:52 PB479/549Beat 13%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:13:041025/1815Beat 44%
↑ 188 days after Cardiff 2025, with Richard Branson 3:56 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:17 faster for everyone: 3:56 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair1:39 slower -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:30:13 PB249/263Beat 5%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:47365/523Beat 30%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 12:18 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:15 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 12:18 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete11:15 slower -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Men1:11:25 PB342/563Beat 39%
↑ 202 days after Manchester 2024, with Richard Branson 0:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:36 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:24 faster for everyone, so 0:12 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:24 faster This pair4:36 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:32 PB838/1445Beat 42%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:16:01516/719Beat 28%