Progress against the field
Paul Milburn has dropped 12:08 behind the field from Glasgow 2023 to Birmingham 2025.
The clock says 2:00 slower, but the races themselves got 10:08 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 375 days between Glasgow 2024 and Glasgow 2025, cost 8:33 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
11 races · 10 events
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Manchester21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:03:06 PB103/279Beat 63%
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London Excel4 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men59:07125/1815Beat 93%
↑ 43 days after Birmingham 2025, with Mark Donoghue 2:19 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:19 behind the field: 0:28 slower on the clock, against 1:51 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:51 faster This pair0:28 slower -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Men58:39 PB79/1099Beat 93%
↑ 327 days after London 2024, with Mark Donoghue 0:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:48 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:49 faster for everyone, so 0:59 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This pair3:48 faster -
Birmingham22 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:54161/523Beat 69%
↑ 224 days after Glasgow 2025 7:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 7:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete6:31 slower -
Glasgow12 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:11:23272/1588Beat 83%
↑ 375 days after Glasgow 2024 8:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:58 slower on the clock in a race that was 6:35 faster for everyone: 8:33 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:35 faster This athlete1:58 slower -
London29 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:02:2791/984Beat 91%
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Manchester9 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:03:00118/719Beat 84%
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Birmingham25 Oct 2024Individual Open · MenDNF—
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Glasgow2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:09:25 PB139/1784Beat 92%
↑ 133 days after Birmingham 2023 0:59 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:17 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:16 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:59 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:16 faster This athlete3:17 faster -
Birmingham21 Oct 2023Individual Open · Men1:12:42117/1182Beat 90%
↑ 252 days after Glasgow 2023 4:58 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:12 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:46 slower for everyone: 4:58 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 slower This athlete3:12 faster -
Glasgow11 Feb 2023Individual Open · Men1:15:54275/974Beat 72%