Progress against the field
From Cardiff 2026 to Birmingham 2026, Graham Wilson and Craig Palmer got 3:02 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:36 quicker, so 4:38 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 Craig Palmer, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:59 PB393/1035Beat 62%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Craig Palmer 3:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:02 better than the field: 4:38 faster on the clock, against 1:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair4:38 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:37209/430Beat 51%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Relay · Men1:31:2749/58Beat 16%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:24:04179/243Beat 26%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025, with Colin Fraser 0:49 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:06 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:55 faster for everyone, so 0:49 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:55 faster This pair0:06 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:24:10989/1177Beat 16%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:51:31 PB824/841Beat 2%