Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2025 and Glasgow 2026, Paul Kirkwood pulled 2:46 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 3:12 quicker, so 5:58 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 267 days between Glasgow 2025 and London Excel 2025, still ended 2:18 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:27 PB76/332Beat 77%
↑ 391 days after Malaga 2025, with Mollie Kirkwood 0:40 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:31 faster for everyone, so 0:40 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This pair4:11 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:36 PB62/613Beat 90%
↑ 97 days after London Excel 2025 0:28 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:08 faster on the clock in a race that was 0:20 slower for everyone: 0:28 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:20 slower This athlete0:08 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:04105/404Beat 74%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:09:44417/2779Beat 85%
↑ 267 days after Glasgow 2025 2:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:18 better than the field: 5:50 faster on the clock, against 3:32 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:32 faster This athlete5:50 faster -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:13:38241/693Beat 65%
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Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:34483/1445Beat 67%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Doubles Open · Men1:06:09 PB111/441Beat 75%