Progress against the field
From Washington - North American Championships 2024 to Chicago 2025, Matthew Cowen got 1:55 faster than the field.
The clock says 5:01 faster, but the races themselves got 3:06 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Washington - North American Championships 2024 → Chicago Navy Pier 2024: 8:32 on the field in 259 days.
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 · 5 events
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Chicago14 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:27:20638/1621Beat 61%
↑ 286 days after Las Vegas 2025 0:49 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:52 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:03 faster for everyone, so 0:49 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →2:03 faster This athlete2:52 faster -
Las Vegas1 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:12326/689Beat 53%
↑ 77 days after Chicago Navy Pier 2024 7:26 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:53 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:27 slower for everyone: 7:26 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:27 slower This athlete7:53 slower -
Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Individual Open · Men1:22:19 PB292/814Beat 64%
↑ 259 days after Washington - North American Championships 2024 8:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:32 better than the field: 10:02 faster on the clock, against 1:30 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:30 faster This athlete10:02 faster -
Washington - North American Championships2 Mar 2024Individual Open · Men1:32:21322/498Beat 35%
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Washington D.C. Open North American ChampionshipsDate unknownIndividual Open · Men1:24:06597/1544Beat 61%