Progress against the field
Between Atlanta 2025 and Washington DC 2026, Alyssa Smith and Michele Blumenthal pulled 2:19 ahead of the field.
The clock says 6:53 faster, but the races themselves got 4:34 quicker for everyone.
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 Doubles Open · Women, with Michele Blumenthal, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Washington DC3 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Women1:22:36261/1382Beat 81%
↑ 307 days after Atlanta 2025, with Michele Blumenthal 2:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:19 better than the field: 6:53 faster on the clock, against 4:34 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:34 faster This pair6:53 faster -
Phoenix29 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Women1:20:46 PB186/758Beat 76%
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Atlanta31 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Women1:29:29276/596Beat 54%
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Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:16:33 PB133/390Beat 66%
↑ 371 days after Chicago 2023, with Benjamin Durst 1:19 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:05 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:46 faster for everyone, so 1:19 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:46 faster This pair3:05 faster -
Chicago11 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:3848/123Beat 61%
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Washington D.C. Open North American ChampionshipsDate unknownIndividual Open · Women1:33:03 PB462/893Beat 48%