AUTUMN SHORT RACE SERIES

Congratulations to the class winners in the 2010 Autumn Short Race Series:

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Summary

Four short orienteering races on Saturday mornings.  Click on this link to download the series flyer (PDF format, 605 kB).

• Short, 'sprint style' courses, with winning times around 15 minutes.
• Fast, furious racing for more experienced orienteers.  Full instruction for newcomers.   Anyone can have a go!
• No hassle.   Pre-marked maps.   Electronic timing.
• Junior coaching sessions after each race.   Join in and learn.   Adults also welcome.

Dates and Venues 25-Sep-2010     South Park, Darlington 30-Oct-2010 Hardwick Park, Sedgefield 13-Nov-2010 Summerhill, Hartlepool 18-Dec-2010 Riverside, Stockton League Tables Course A Course B Prizes There are overall series prizes in eight classes, best 3 of 4 races to count:- Men / Women Junior (14-)         Course B Men / Women Youth (18-)          Course A Men / Women Open                   Course A Men / Women Veteran (55+)     Course A The prizes for the Junior and Youth series winners have kindly been donated by Cleveland Runner of Great Ayton.

From the second race onwards the class leaders wore special O-tops. Click on the picture to see a larger version.

Scoring system

For 2010, we are adopting a scoring system regularly used at multi-day events (for example the Lakes and Welsh 5 day events).

The basis is to scale times for each event so that anyone whose run time was equal to a ’Par‘ time would score 1000 points.  Faster runners score more points.  As an illustration, click here to see the calculation of the score for one of last year's races using the 2010 system.

Points are calculated using the following formula:

Your Points = 1000 + 500 * (ParT – your time) / ParT

where

    ParT = average time of the first ((N+1) div 2) competitors; (i.e. top 50%}

    N = Number of competitors who START the event; i.e. including those who mispunched or didn't finish.

The ’Par‘ time is calculated by course rather than class to minimize the anomalies where classes have a small number of entrants.  However, the results will still be displayed by class.

The method gives equal weight to all of the four events, even if they vary in difficulty and length or different competitors take part.  Each runner's three best results will be used to decide the final class results.

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