Progress against the field
Between Chicago Navy Pier 2024 and Phoenix 2026, Joe Kelly pulled 8:58 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:27 quicker, so 13:25 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 363 days between Chicago Navy Pier 2024 and Chicago 2025, still ended 7:57 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
5 races · 4 events
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Phoenix29 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:02 PB59/616Beat 90%
↑ 76 days after Chicago 2025 1:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:01 better than the field: 5:02 faster on the clock, against 4:01 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:01 faster This athlete5:02 faster -
Chicago14 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:04270/1621Beat 83%
↑ 363 days after Chicago Navy Pier 2024 7:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:23 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:26 faster for everyone, so 7:57 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:26 faster This athlete8:23 faster -
Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:26:27378/814Beat 54%
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Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:08:17 PB73/270Beat 73%
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Miami BeachDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:18:44233/972Beat 76%