Progress against the field
Between Chicago 2025 and Washington DC 2026, Anirudh Venkateshwaran pulled 11:12 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 7:26 quicker, so 18:38 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Chicago 2025 → Phoenix 2026: 12:06 in 76 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
3 races · 3 events
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Washington DC3 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:33:55 PB758/1462Beat 48%
↑ 217 days after Phoenix 2026 0:54 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:31 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:25 faster for everyone, so 0:54 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:25 faster This athlete2:31 faster -
Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:36:26651/947Beat 31%
↑ 76 days after Chicago 2025 12:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
16:07 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:01 faster for everyone, so 12:06 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:01 faster This athlete16:07 faster -
Chicago14 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:52:331353/1621Beat 17%