Progress against the field
Between Dublin 2024 and Malaga 2026, Derek McHugh and Des McGrath pulled 10:49 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:43 quicker, so 16:32 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 236 days between Malaga 2025 and Dublin 2025, still ended 8:39 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.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:10:04 PB265/607Beat 56%
↑ 155 days after Dublin 2025, with Des McGrath 1:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:32 faster for everyone, so 1:05 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:32 faster This pair3:37 faster -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:26:09587/667Beat 12%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:13:41421/777Beat 46%
↑ 236 days after Malaga 2025, with Des McGrath 8:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:25 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:46 faster for everyone, so 8:39 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:46 faster This pair11:25 faster -
Cardiff30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:43:44 PB572/639Beat 11%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:25:06615/704Beat 13%
↑ 126 days after Dublin 2024, with Des McGrath 1:05 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:25 faster for everyone, so 1:05 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:25 faster This pair1:30 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:26:36586/638Beat 8%