Progress against the field
Between Houston 2025 and Phoenix 2026, donovan chesnut kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:09 quicker, so 6:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 244 days between Houston 2025 and Chicago 2025, still ended 1:39 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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Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:30:02 PB549/947Beat 42%
↑ 76 days after Chicago 2025 1:42 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:19 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:01 faster for everyone, so 1:42 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:01 faster This athlete2:19 faster -
Chicago14 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:32:21827/1621Beat 49%
↑ 244 days after Houston 2025 1:39 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:47 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:08 faster for everyone, so 1:39 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:08 faster This athlete3:47 faster -
Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:08623/1005Beat 38%