Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2025, Luci Galliford and Helen Thomas pulled 4:59 ahead of the field.
The clock says 8:02 faster, but the races themselves got 3:03 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Cardiff 2025 → Birmingham 2025: 2:47 on the field in 145 days.
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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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:26:32 PB492/904Beat 46%
↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025, with Helen Thomas 2:47 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:12 faster for everyone, so 2:47 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:12 faster This pair3:59 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Open · Women1:30:31185/247Beat 25%
↑ 79 days after Glasgow 2025, with Helen Thomas 2:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:12 better than the field: 4:03 faster on the clock, against 1:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair4:03 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Women1:34:34779/1051Beat 26%