Progress against the field
Paul Norris and Sean O'Connor have gained 0:58 on the field from London Excel 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 1:54 quicker, so 2:52 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 185 days between Cardiff 2026 and Birmingham 2026, still ended 1:15 ahead of 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 · Men1:35:20 PB556/600Beat 7%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Sean O'Connor 1:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:15 better than the field: 2:51 faster on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair2:51 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:38:11464/478Beat 3%
↑ 146 days after London Excel 2025, with Sean O'Connor 0:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:01 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:18 faster for everyone, so 0:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 faster This pair0:01 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:38:122041/2102Beat 3%