Most Improved Runner : 2009
Standard Awards :
WAVA Single Race
Ratings :
Single Race Improvement
Harriers Championship Awards :
Road
Race Championship
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Table Compiled by Tony
Dadd
We have 4 years' worth of data now - 2006,
2007,2008 and 2009. I compared races run in 2009 to 2006-8 at the same distance
(but not necessarily the same race!). So the best 5 mile age-graded % from 2009
was compared to the best 5 mile age-graded % set in 2006-8 etc. This wasn't
restricted to the 6 main road race distances so 12K, 15M, 30K and 20M were also
included. For each distance comparison I calculated the raw % improvement and
also the "adjusted" improvement, which allows for the fact that faster runners
have less room for improvement.
Runners were allowed into the final table if they had at least 4 distances at
which they had improved and their mean adjusted improvement was positive (ie
they didn't get worse on average !). They were then ranked by the mean adjusted
improvement.
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|
N |
Mean |
Mean_adj |
Renette Wolvaardt |
4 |
5.90% |
14.5% |
Paul Holmes |
4 |
3.79% |
9.08% |
Richard Watson |
5 |
3.49% |
8.72% |
Joe Nellis |
4 |
3.31% |
8.69% |
Keith Gray |
4 |
3.97% |
8.69% |
Sarah Lee |
5 |
2.43% |
7.69% |
Graham Short |
6 |
1.97% |
6.47% |
David Roberts |
4 |
2.35% |
6.26% |
Samantha Linney |
4 |
2.38% |
6.01% |
David Sharman |
5 |
2.17% |
5.21% |
Chris Fadden |
5 |
2.14% |
5.14% |
Ian Joyce |
6 |
1.46% |
3.69% |
Linda Watson |
5 |
1.34% |
2.92% |
Tom Brassington |
4 |
1.13% |
2.54% |