Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2025 and Birmingham 2026, Sarah Paterson and Ross Paterson pulled 2:04 ahead of the field.
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.
Every race
4 races · 3 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:11 PB39/560Beat 93%
↑ 234 days after Glasgow 2026, with Ross 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 -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:2441/460Beat 91%
↑ 140 days after Birmingham 2025, with Ross Paterson 2:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:00 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:04 faster for everyone, so 2:56 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:04 faster This pair4:00 faster -
Glasgow11 Mar 2026Individual Open · Women1:17:28 PB85/1084Beat 92%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:24155/889Beat 83%