Progress against the field
Mike McDonald has gained 2:29 on the field from Toronto 2024 to Toronto 2025.
The clock says 8:15 faster, but the races themselves got 5:46 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Las Vegas 2025 → New York 2025: 2:40 on the field in 118 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
4 races · 4 events
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Toronto3 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:23437/1264Beat 65%
↑ 126 days after New York 2025 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:56 slower on the clock, and the race was 1:56 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:56 slower This athlete1:56 slower -
New York30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:27 PB737/1462Beat 50%
↑ 118 days after Las Vegas 2025 2:40 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:40 better than the field: 10:06 faster on the clock, against 7:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →7:26 faster This athlete10:06 faster -
Las Vegas1 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:33269/462Beat 42%
↑ 119 days after Toronto 2024 0:11 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:05 faster on the clock, yet the race was 0:16 faster for everyone, so 0:11 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:16 faster This athlete0:05 faster -
Toronto5 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:36:38415/627Beat 34%