Progress against the field
From Chicago 2023 to Chicago 2025, Joe Gast and Steve Olenchek got 2:40 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:39 quicker, so 7:19 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
371 days between Chicago 2023 and Chicago Navy Pier 2024 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 3:31 behind 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
4 races · 4 events
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Chicago14 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:06:13 PB95/905Beat 90%
↑ 363 days after Chicago Navy Pier 2024, with Steve Olenchek 6:11 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:45 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:34 faster for everyone, so 6:11 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 faster This pair7:45 faster -
Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:13:58122/270Beat 55%
↑ 371 days after Chicago 2023, with Steve Olenchek 3:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:31 behind the field: 0:26 slower on the clock, against 3:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:05 faster This pair0:26 slower -
Chicago11 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:13:3268/144Beat 53%
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Washington D.C. Open North American ChampionshipsDate unknownDoubles Open · Men1:14:27332/795Beat 58%