Progress against the field
Between Houston 2025 and Houston 2026, Brandon Kirby lost 1:23 to the field.
The clock says 4:16 faster, but the races themselves got 5:39 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 244 days between Houston 2025 and Chicago 2025, still ended 5:16 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Houston26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:2676/335Beat 77%
↑ 132 days after Chicago 2025 6:39 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:08 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:31 faster for everyone: 6:39 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 faster This athlete3:08 slower -
Chicago14 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:18 PB278/1621Beat 83%
↑ 244 days after Houston 2025 5:16 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:24 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:08 faster for everyone, so 5:16 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete7:24 faster -
Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:42382/1005Beat 62%