Progress against the field
Between Boston 2025 and Tampa 2026, Nancy Baynard pulled 2:07 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:00 quicker, so 7:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 244 days between Boston 2025 and New York 2026, still ended 8:59 ahead of 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Tampa22 Oct 2026Individual Open · Women1:26:30126/600Beat 79%
↑ 147 days after New York 2026 6:52 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:19 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:33 faster for everyone: 6:52 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:33 faster This athlete1:19 slower -
Washington DC3 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:17:44 PB87/223Beat 61%
↑ 77 days after Stockholm 2026, with Kristen Massey 8:18 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:09 faster for everyone, so 8:18 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:09 faster This pair9:27 faster -
Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Pro · Women1:27:11640/689Beat 7%
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New York28 May 2026Individual Open · Women1:25:11 PB168/1098Beat 85%
↑ 244 days after Boston 2025 8:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 0:33 slower for everyone and the clock still says 8:26 faster: 8:59 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:33 slower This athlete8:26 faster -
Boston26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Women1:33:37594/1290Beat 54%