Progress against the field
Between Boston 2025 and New York 2026, Joe Confessore lost 2:29 to the field.
The clock says 2:23 faster, but the races themselves got 4:52 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Boston 2025 → Phoenix 2026: 2:18 on the field in 125 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 5 events
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Washington DC3 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:06 PB79/1230Beat 94%
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New York28 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:1766/575Beat 89%
↑ 363 days after New York 2025, with Melissa Neglia 0:40 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:18 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:58 faster for everyone, so 0:40 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:58 faster This pair0:18 faster -
New York28 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:1391/1046Beat 91%
↑ 119 days after Phoenix 2026 4:47 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:37 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:10 faster for everyone: 4:47 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:10 faster This athlete1:37 slower -
New York28 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:17167/1067Beat 84%
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Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:36 PB68/616Beat 89%
↑ 125 days after Boston 2025 2:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:00 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:42 faster for everyone, so 2:18 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:42 faster This athlete4:00 faster -
Boston26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:36290/1463Beat 80%
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New York30 May 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:3524/143Beat 83%