Progress against the field
Ross Paterson and Sarah Paterson have gained 2:04 on the field from Birmingham 2025 to Birmingham 2026.
The clock says 5:13 faster, but the races themselves got 3:09 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Birmingham 2025 → Glasgow 2026: 2:56 in 140 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Sarah Paterson, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 4 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:45492/1035Beat 53%
↑ 185 days after Cardiff 2026, with Ross Thomas 0:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:36 faster for everyone, so 0:32 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 faster This pair2:08 faster -
Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:11 PB39/560Beat 93%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026, with Sarah Paterson 0:52 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:13 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:05 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:52 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:05 faster This pair1:13 faster -
Cardiff29 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:11:53140/271Beat 48%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:31 PB77/391Beat 80%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:2441/460Beat 91%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025, with Sarah Paterson 2:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:56 better than the field: 4:00 faster on the clock, against 1:04 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:04 faster This pair4:00 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:45 PB1375/1821Beat 25%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:24155/889Beat 83%