Progress against the field
Between Las Vegas 2025 and Phoenix 2026, Erik Markwardt pulled 13:45 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 6:10 quicker, so 19:55 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 314 days between Las Vegas 2025 and Anaheim 2025, still ended 20:09 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 · Men1:28:24256/616Beat 58%
↑ 48 days after Anaheim 2025 6:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:49 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:35 faster for everyone: 6:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete1:49 slower -
Anaheim12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:35 PB534/1835Beat 71%
↑ 314 days after Las Vegas 2025 20:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
21:44 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:35 faster for everyone, so 20:09 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:35 faster This athlete21:44 faster -
Las Vegas1 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:48:19390/462Beat 16%