Progress against the field
Between Birmingham 2024 and Manchester 2026, Scott Barlow lost 7:47 to the field.
The clock says 0:41 slower, but the races themselves got 7:06 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 306 days between Malaga 2025 and Manchester 2026, cost 7:51 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men1:04:59 PB80/312Beat 74%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Michael Mackenzie 0:42 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:32 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:14 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:42 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:14 faster This pair1:32 faster -
Manchester21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:47655/1463Beat 55%
↑ 306 days after Malaga 2025 7:51 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:51 behind the field: 7:49 slower on the clock, against 0:02 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This athlete7:49 slower -
Dublin12 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:51 PB258/594Beat 57%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:31367/1099Beat 67%
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Malaga21 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:12:58 PB82/534Beat 85%
↑ 132 days after Manchester 2024 0:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:42 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:50 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:50 faster This athlete2:42 faster -
Manchester24 Jan 2025Doubles Open · Men1:08:49240/616Beat 61%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:15:40400/1206Beat 67%
↑ 15 days after Birmingham 2024 0:12 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:12 better than the field: 4:26 faster on the clock, against 4:14 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:14 faster This athlete4:26 faster -
Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:20:06649/1916Beat 66%