Progress against the field
From New York 2025 to Houston 2026, the field gained 1:20 on Luke Buchanan.
The clock says 4:38 faster, but the races themselves got 5:58 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was New York 2025 → Boston 2025: 4:34 on the field in 119 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
6 races · 6 events
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Boston8 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Men56:38 PB3/276Beat 99%
↑ 35 days after Washington DC 2026, with Gregory George 0:57 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:02 faster for everyone, so 0:57 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:02 faster This pair1:05 faster -
Washington DC3 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men57:434/258Beat 98%
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Houston26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:0020/653Beat 97%
↑ 125 days after Dallas 2025 4:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:09 behind the field: 0:49 slower on the clock, against 3:20 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:20 faster This athlete0:49 slower -
Dallas21 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:1178/2078Beat 96%
↑ 56 days after Boston 2025 1:45 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:42 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:03 faster for everyone: 1:45 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:03 faster This athlete0:42 slower -
Boston26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:07:29 PB54/1463Beat 96%
↑ 119 days after New York 2025 4:34 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:09 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:35 faster for everyone, so 4:34 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:35 faster This athlete6:09 faster -
New York30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:13:38230/1462Beat 84%