Progress against the field
From Chicago 2023 to Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Ben Cottrell got 2:49 faster than the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:38 quicker, so 4:27 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
2 races · 2 events
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Chicago Navy Pier16 Nov 2024Individual Pro · Men1:24:38 PB135/199Beat 32%
↑ 371 days after Chicago 2023 2:49 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:27 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:38 faster for everyone, so 2:49 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:38 faster This athlete4:27 faster -
Chicago11 Nov 2023Individual Pro · Men1:29:0583/113Beat 27%