Most Improved Runner : 2009

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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.

Tony Dadd