Progress against the field
From Houston 2025 to Phoenix 2026, the field gained 1:31 on Preston Zeller.
The clock says 4:37 faster, but the races themselves got 6:08 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 272 days between Houston 2025 and Anaheim 2025, cost 7:16 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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Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:44:06 PB741/947Beat 22%
↑ 48 days after Anaheim 2025 5:45 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:35 faster for everyone, so 5:45 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete10:20 faster -
Anaheim12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:54:261440/1835Beat 22%
↑ 272 days after Houston 2025 7:16 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:16 behind the field: 5:43 slower on the clock, against 1:33 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:33 faster This athlete5:43 slower -
Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:48:43796/1005Beat 21%