Progress against the field
From Houston 2024 to Houston 2026, the field gained 2:26 on Carleigh Patenaude.
Over the same races everyone got 4:52 quicker, so 2:26 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 376 days between Houston 2025 and Houston 2026, cost 4:33 on 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Houston26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Women1:24:0597/240Beat 60%
↑ 376 days after Houston 2025 4:33 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:40 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:53 faster for everyone: 4:33 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:53 faster This athlete0:40 slower -
Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Pro · Women1:23:25 PB58/141Beat 59%
↑ 364 days after Houston 2024 2:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:07 better than the field: 3:06 faster on the clock, against 0:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This athlete3:06 faster -
Houston16 Mar 2024Individual Pro · Women1:26:3137/57Beat 35%