Progress against the field
From Dublin 2024 to Dublin 2025, Cathal Burns got 3:50 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:09 quicker, so 8:59 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Dublin 2024 → Malaga 2025: 4:18 on the field in 126 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 · 4 events
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Glasgow11 Mar 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:05:25 PB39/66Beat 41%
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Dublin12 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:51 PB205/955Beat 79%
↑ 236 days after Malaga 2025 0:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:35 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:03 faster for everyone, so 0:28 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:03 faster This athlete1:35 faster -
Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:26260/966Beat 73%
↑ 126 days after Dublin 2024 4:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:18 better than the field: 7:24 faster on the clock, against 3:06 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:06 faster This athlete7:24 faster -
Dublin15 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:50185/545Beat 66%