Progress against the field
From London Excel 2025 to Birmingham 2026, the field gained 4:29 on Stephen Pollock and Helen Pollock.
Over the same races everyone got 1:45 quicker, so 2:44 slower 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 · Mixed, with Helen Pollock, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 7 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:5284/293Beat 71%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026, with Helen Pollock 0:38 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:27 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:05 faster for everyone, so 0:38 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This pair1:27 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men58:40 PB26/605Beat 96%
↑ 162 days after Berlin 2026, with Dan Garnett 0:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:45 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This pair1:45 faster -
Berlin22 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:00:2524/308Beat 92%
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Cardiff29 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:33:34 PB452/533Beat 15%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:14:19291/1198Beat 76%
↑ 97 days after London Excel 2025, with Helen Pollock 3:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:51 behind the field: 4:11 slower on the clock, against 0:20 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:20 slower This pair4:11 slower -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:22:32 PB239/529Beat 55%
↑ 91 days after Birmingham 2025 0:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:46 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:03 faster for everyone, so 0:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete0:46 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:08 PB277/1474Beat 81%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:18843/1821Beat 54%