Progress against the field
Between Glasgow 2023 and Glasgow 2026, Robert JOYCE and Gary McBride lost 7:07 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:47 quicker, so 2:20 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 501 days between Dublin 2023 and Glasgow 2025, cost 3:06 on 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 Doubles Open · Men, with Gary McBride, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 9 events
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Malaga16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:55 PB391/607Beat 36%
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:18591/917Beat 36%
↑ 364 days after Glasgow 2025, with Gary McBride 2:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:30 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:42 faster for everyone: 2:12 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:42 faster This pair1:30 slower -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:17:14486/704Beat 31%
↑ 342 days after Malaga 2024, with Gary Mcbride 0:02 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:25 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:23 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:23 faster This pair1:25 faster -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:16:48666/947Beat 30%
↑ 501 days after Dublin 2023, with Gary McBride 3:06 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:36 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:42 faster for everyone, so 3:06 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:42 faster This pair3:36 faster -
Malaga13 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men1:18:39272/332Beat 18%
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:25:42 PB866/1784Beat 52%
↑ 504 days after Birmingham 2022 5:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:42 better than the field: 8:20 faster on the clock, against 2:38 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:38 faster This athlete8:20 faster -
Dublin28 Oct 2023Doubles Open · Men1:20:24250/350Beat 29%
↑ 259 days after Glasgow 2023, with Gary McBride 1:49 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:37 slower for everyone: 1:49 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:37 slower This pair4:26 slower -
Glasgow11 Feb 2023Doubles Open · Men1:15:58248/343Beat 28%
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Birmingham15 Oct 2022Individual Open · Men1:34:02642/960Beat 33%