Progress against the field
Shari Cardwell has dropped 1:45 behind the field from Houston 2025 to Chicago 2025.
The clock says 1:06 faster, but the races themselves got 2:51 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 · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Chicago14 Nov 2025Individual Open · Women1:15:20 PB69/1127Beat 94%
↑ 244 days after Houston 2025 1:45 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:06 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:51 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:45 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:51 faster This athlete1:06 faster -
Houston15 Mar 2025Individual Open · Women1:16:2668/646Beat 90%
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Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Women1:13:00 PB47/447Beat 90%
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Chicago11 Nov 2023Individual Open · Women1:21:2362/299Beat 79%
↑ 273 days after Chicago - North American Open Championship 2023 1:43 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:34 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:17 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:43 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This athlete0:34 faster -
Chicago - North American Open Championship11 Feb 2023Individual Open · Women1:21:5752/195Beat 73%
↑ 98 days after Chicago 2022 3:17 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:26 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:43 faster for everyone, so 3:17 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:43 faster This athlete0:26 faster -
Chicago5 Nov 2022Individual Open · Women1:22:2328/156Beat 82%
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Las Vegas14 May 2022Individual Pro · Women1:38:14 PB127/156Beat 19%
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Chicago26 Jun 2021Doubles Open · Mixed1:25:34 PB12/27Beat 56%