Progress against the field
Between Dallas 2024 and Houston 2026, Stephen McAdams lost 0:35 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 9:57 quicker, so 9:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 320 days between Houston 2025 and Phoenix 2026, cost 3:01 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
7 races · 7 events
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Houston26 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:24:20377/1243Beat 70%
↑ 56 days after Phoenix 2026 6:28 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:57 faster for everyone: 6:28 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:57 faster This athlete4:31 slower -
Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:49 PB288/947Beat 70%
↑ 320 days after Houston 2025 3:01 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:32 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:33 faster for everyone, so 3:01 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:33 faster This athlete1:32 faster -
Dallas21 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:20:01 PB609/1269Beat 52%
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Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:21:21282/1005Beat 72%
↑ 112 days after Dallas 2024 8:54 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:27 faster for everyone, so 8:54 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:27 faster This athlete12:21 faster -
Dallas23 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:33:42508/929Beat 45%
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Houston16 Mar 2024Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:40 PB56/148Beat 62%
↑ 119 days after Dallas 2023, with Nickole McAdams 2:36 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:32 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:08 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:36 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:08 faster This pair0:32 faster -
Dallas18 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:1259/161Beat 63%