Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Martyn Paterson lost 1:14 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:45 quicker, so 6:31 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cardiff 2025 → Dublin 2025: 3:12 in 166 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
14 races · 11 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men56:29 PB4/677Beat 99%
↑ 198 days after Malaga 2026 0:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:21 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 faster This athlete0:30 faster -
Gdansk10 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:02:38 PB18/286Beat 94%
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men56:593/1036Beat 100%
↑ 155 days after Dublin 2025 3:16 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:15 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:31 faster for everyone, so 3:16 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete0:15 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:54 PB20/202Beat 90%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:04:2922/134Beat 84%
↑ 49 days after Manchester 2026 1:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:08 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:25 faster for everyone, so 1:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:25 faster This athlete1:08 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:05:3729/130Beat 78%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:07:0015/215Beat 93%
↑ 70 days after Maastricht 2025 1:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:09 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:23 faster for everyone, so 1:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This athlete0:09 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men57:142/955Beat 100%
↑ 166 days after Cardiff 2025 3:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:35 faster for everyone, so 3:12 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete7:47 faster -
Maastricht19 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:07:0932/208Beat 85%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Doubles Pro · Men58:1319/93Beat 80%
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Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:05:0117/639Beat 97%
↑ 14 days after Berlin 2025 2:36 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:36 behind the field: 5:51 slower on the clock, against 3:15 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:15 slower This athlete5:51 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men59:1017/1851Beat 99%
↑ 65 days after Glasgow 2025 1:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:50 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:33 faster for everyone, so 1:17 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:33 faster This athlete3:50 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:35 PB349/947Beat 63%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:03:0045/1588Beat 97%