Progress against the field
Between Dallas 2024 and New York 2025, Matt Taylor lost 11:14 to the field.
The clock says 2:42 slower, but the races themselves got 8:32 quicker for everyone.
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
12 races · 12 events
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Chicago14 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:13:25 PB314/905Beat 65%
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New York30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:51:061311/1462Beat 10%
↑ 76 days after Houston 2025 0:13 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:52 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:05 faster for everyone, so 0:13 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:05 faster This athlete4:52 faster -
Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:55:58864/1005Beat 14%
↑ 112 days after Dallas 2024 11:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:34 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:27 faster for everyone: 11:01 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:27 faster This athlete7:34 slower -
Anaheim7 Dec 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:07:25 PB9/30Beat 70%
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Dallas23 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:48:24730/929Beat 21%
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Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:46:53676/814Beat 17%
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Houston16 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:57:31340/406Beat 16%
↑ 119 days after Dallas 2023 9:46 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:46 better than the field: 17:10 faster on the clock, against 7:24 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →7:24 faster This athlete17:10 faster -
Dallas18 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men2:14:41408/436Beat 6%
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Anaheim22 Apr 2023Individual Open · Men1:18:39 PB58/294Beat 80%
↑ 163 days after Los Angeles 2022 4:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:07 better than the field: 9:52 faster on the clock, against 5:45 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:45 faster This athlete9:52 faster -
Los Angeles10 Nov 2022Individual Open · Men1:28:3195/208Beat 54%
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Dallas22 Feb 2020Individual Open · Men2:02:50104/122Beat 15%
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Miami BeachDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:57:22879/972Beat 10%