Progress against the field
Odell Waters and Faarooq Lowe have dropped 3:05 behind the field from Chicago 2023 to Chicago 2025.
Over the same races everyone got 4:39 quicker, so 1:34 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
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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Chicago14 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:55:20893/905Beat 1%
↑ 363 days after Chicago Navy Pier 2024, with Faarooq Lowe 3:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:34 faster for everyone: 3:05 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:34 faster This pair1:31 slower -
Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Doubles Open · Men1:53:49 PB264/270Beat 2%
↑ 371 days after Chicago 2023, with Faarooq Lowe 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 3:05 faster on the clock, against 3:05 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:05 faster This pair3:05 faster -
Chicago11 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:56:54142/144Beat 1%