Progress against the field
Between Toronto 2024 and Toronto 2026, Sean Heffernan pulled 1:51 ahead of the field.
The clock says 8:15 faster, but the races themselves got 6:24 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 363 days between Toronto 2024 and Toronto 2025, cost 6:12 on 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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Toronto1 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:33 PB123/545Beat 77%
↑ 363 days after Toronto 2025 8:03 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:20 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:17 faster for everyone, so 8:03 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →6:17 faster This athlete14:20 faster -
Toronto3 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:53279/507Beat 45%
↑ 363 days after Toronto 2024 6:12 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:05 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:07 faster for everyone: 6:12 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 faster This athlete6:05 slower -
Toronto5 Oct 2024Individual Open · Men1:29:48188/416Beat 55%