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2017 Summer Series
We've been working on filling in the summer BAOC schedule, and we're happy to announce that we are going to have a series of five events, all in San Francisco or near the Bay. As you know, many of our venues are too hot in the summer or have too much vegetation, so we focused on the five below because they are great places for summer events.
The current series standings are below.
The Schedule
- July 8: Presidio of San Francisco, Main Post, San Francisco (results)
- July 16: Bedwell Bayfront Park, Menlo Park (results)
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July 30: McLaren Park, San Francisco(CANCELED—see here for details) - August 13: Presidio of San Francisco, Ft. Scott, San Francisco (results)
- August 27: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (results)
Note: The dates of the last two events were swapped on June 14th.
Beginners
BAOC normally welcomes beginners with clinics that introduce orienteering, and with "beginner" courses. However, due to the "simplified" format of these events, those features might not be available at some of the events. Look at the event webpages for details.
We apologize if those omissions occur, and hope beginners will come to our "regular" events at Big Basin State Park (Sept. 17), Calero County Park (Sept. 24), and/or Sunol Regional Wilderness (Oct. 24).
Important Note
Everyone must observe out-of-bounds areas indicated on the maps. Please note, in particular, that olive-green areas are out of bounds.
Failure to stay out of out-of-bounds areas could jeopardize our ability to get permission to hold events at the venue (as well as being unfair to those participants who go around the areas).
The Format
To keep things simple (and to get a course of good length in these small parks), each event will have one advanced course, likely with one or two map exchanges, with a total distance of 5–7 km. That is, everyone will run the course on the first map. Then, those who want to continue will drop their map in a box, pick up the next map, and continue. Those who wish to run less can proceed to the Finish after completing the first (or second) map; they will be listed separately in the results.
Some of the events might have some additional opportunities, like perhaps a Cell-Phone-O.
Scoring and Awards
To make things a little more interesting, participants can accumulate points throughout the series based on their results. Some of the best minds in the world's greatest database companies, and in the nation's finest research labs have deliberated carefully, and arrived at a scoring system for the Summer Series. (Well, okay, actually, François and Dennis had a brief discussion a couple of weekends ago in Idaho. It's François' idea, really, and Dennis said, "Hey, if you're willing to do the work, I'm all for it.")
The scoring system for the Summer Series will combine all participants into one category by making adjustments based on age and gender to each person's performance. The person with the best adjusted performance in a given race will be awarded 1000 points. Everyone else will be awarded points in proportion to how their own adjusted performance compares to that of the person given 1000 points.
Here are the details.
- We will use tables developed by USA Track and Field that make adjustments to 10 km road-race times based on age and gender.
- Each participant in the Summer Series has a fixed reference time based on those tables.
- For a given race, each person's adjusted performance ratio is calculated as their time for that race divided by their reference time.
- The person with the best adjusted performance ratio for the day is the leader and is awarded 1000 points.
- For anyone else, their point total is the leader's adjusted performance ratio divided by their own performance ratio, then multiplied by 1000, and rounded off to the nearest whole number.
This means it is possible for someone who finishes with the slowest legal time in a race to still have the highest point total for the day. So, don't give up!
Now that you've studied the methodology for scoring in minute detail, perhaps an example is in order.
- Suppose there is an event with just three people: a 45-year-old male who we'll call, I dunno, "F"; a 70-year-old male called "D", and a 25-year-old female called "T". Suppose their times on the course are as follows:
- F 45:51
- T 49:30
- D 57:20
- Given their ages and genders, their reference times are as follows. (Links to the USATF tables that we are using for reference times can be found here (http://runscore.com/Alan/AgeGrade.html). We're using the "10 km" column on the "AgeStdHMS" tab in the "Male Road (http://runscore.com/Alan/MaleRoadStd2015.xlsx)" and "Female Road (http://runscore.com/Alan/FemaleRoadStd2015.xlsx)" spreadsheets.)
- F 28:50
- T 30:20
- D 36:09
- Dividing course time by reference time gives the adjusted performance ratios for the course:
- F 1.59017
- T 1.63187
- D 1.58598
- So, D is the leader (despite having the slowest time) and gets 1000 points. To get the points for the others, divide their ratios into D's, multiply by 1000, and you get F with 997 points and T with 972.
Conclusion: If you want to win in the Summer Series, either (a) get fast, or (b) get old fast.
By popular demand, final standings will be based on each person's four three best scores in the five-event four-event Series.
For the record, note that François Léonard is the Official Scorer, so all queries and compliments should go to him. Complaints should be sent to 
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We need to know everyone's age in order to make these calculations. As usual, your orienteering age is your age at the end of the calendar year. So what we really want is your year of birth. There will be sign-up sheets at either registration or at the E-punch download at each meet. Please put down your name and year of birth. Or you can send email.
Some "fine print":
- Everyone who has a valid finish for that day's full course will be awarded points (except group entries will not earn points). However, to be eligible for the cumulative awards, you must be a BAOC member in good standing as of the date of the final event of the series.
- If you don't tell us your year of birth, we will assume you are a 21-year-old male. If you like that idea better than you like getting more points, well, that's up to you.
- If we find out your age after some of the point calculations have been made, we will try to go back and recalculate your point totals for the earlier events. In no case, though, will such retroactive point adjustments exceed 1000 points for a given race. (In other words, if you don't tell us your year of birth in time, and you should have been the leader that day, you won't quite get all the credit you might have gotten.)
- Course Setters for events in the Series will be given points for their own event equal to their best other point total in the series. Event Directors (some of whom may be able to run in their own event) will be given the higher of (a) their actual score in the event or (b) their best other point total in the series.
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(May 24, 2017)
Wrap-Up
Sixty-eight different people scored points in our four-event Summer Series, so the events, put together at the last minute to fill a gap in our schedule, clearly served their purpose. As previously announced, the top three places in our age-graded scoring system went to François Léonard, Tori Borish, and Steve Gregg.
Thanks once again to all the Course Setters and Event Directors who stepped up on short notice to make the events happen:
- Graham Brew (CS) and Marie-Josée Parayre (ED) for Presidio #1
- Ann Marie Cody (CS) and Jeff Lanam (ED) for Bayfront Park
- Greg Khanlarov (CS) and Scott Aster (ED) for Presidio #2
- Steve Gregg (CS) and Trevor Pering (ED) for Golden Gate Park
Thanks also to Theo Verhoeven (CS) and Deron van Hoff (ED) who had a fifth event all ready to go, but then we were denied a permit to go off-trail at the last minute.
François Leonard proposed the age-graded scoring system, and made all the calculations very promptly. Special thanks to Marie-Josée Parayre, BAOC's Official Desert Maker, for providing her delicious home-made fudge for awards. And thanks to everyone who pitched in on the days of the events for all the necessary tasks.
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(Sept. 1, 2017)
Results
As noted above, Event Directors and Course Setters receive credit for their service. Points earned by those credits are in bold below.
The event place numbers below are the places in the points tables for the events, not finishing places on the courses. See the respective results pages for the details.
Series Presidio 1 Bayfront Presidio 2 GG Park Total Num. Best Place Name Pl Pts Pl Pts Pl Pts Pl Pts Points Events Three 1 François Léonard 1 1000 1 1000 1 1000 3000 3 3000 2 Tori Borish 2 882 2 919 4 906 2707 3 2707 3 Steve Gregg 7 773 6 806 4 875 credit 875 3329 4 2556 4 Tak Sugiyama 3 830 5 811 7 802 9 840 3283 4 2481 5 Chuck Spalding 9 753 16 615 6 846 10 805 3019 4 2404 6 Stephen Harrison 8 763 5 868 16 715 2346 3 2346 7 Marie-Josée Parayre credit 742 12 742 14 726 2210 3 2210 8 Graham Brew credit 734 9 734 12 732 2200 3 2200 9 Huon Wilson 20 634 17 614 13 731 15 721 2700 4 2086 10 Derek Maclean 19 638 13 731 17 700 2069 3 2069 11 Werner Haag 17 645 11 686 13 731 2062 3 2062 12 Steve Haas 10 715 10 697 22 640 2052 3 2052 13 Tony Pinkham 22 620 12 642 17 694 1956 3 1956 14 Matthias Kohler 28 556 21 541 21 648 19 662 2407 4 1866 15 Lori Huberman 26 582 19 600 20 654 1836 3 1836 16 Stephanie Maclean 17 645 22 645 34 525 1815 3 1815 17 Anastasiya Gordeeva 3 893 5 888 1781 2 1781 18 George Minarik 0 18 603 24 617 32 546 1766 4 1766 19 Rex Winterbottom 2 861 6 881 1742 2 1742 20 Gary Carpenter 25 594 22 468 23 638 1700 3 1700 21 Penny DeMoss 5 824 3 838 1662 2 1662 22 Irena Stefanova 30 540 25 395 26 606 36 487 2028 4 1633 23 Leslie Minarik 31 533 23 440 25 611 38 484 2068 4 1628 24 Ann Marie Cody 6 779 credit 779 1558 2 1558 25 Olga Kraght 33 487 27 584 39 474 1545 3 1545 26 Antoine Finot 9 759 11 766 1525 2 1525 27 Evan Custer 20 556 36 275 26 624 1455 3 1455 28 Nikolay Chukanov 8 760 30 622 1382 2 1382 29 Mark Blair 24 420 32 460 40 466 1346 3 1346 30 Theo Verhoven 15 618 15 714 1332 2 1332 31 Fyodor Konkov 16 703 27 623 1326 2 1326 32 Vicky Woolworth 18 688 28 623 1311 2 1311 33 Greg Favor 14 649 21 649 1298 2 1298 34 Greg Ehrensing 21 624 19 673 1297 2 1297 35 Rich Parker 14 649 13 630 1279 2 1279 36 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 27 576 18 668 1244 2 1244 37 Christine Brew 24 610 14 625 1235 2 1235 38 Jeff Lanam credit 410 35 410 42 390 1210 3 1210 39 Sam Coradetti 29 548 27 623 1171 2 1171 40 Manfred Kopish 20 650 36 487 1137 2 1137 41 Dan Greene 32 523 31 563 1086 2 1086 42 Toru Furusawa 29 528 33 545 1073 2 1073 43 Terry Gleason 28 554 41 457 1011 2 1011 44 Scott Aster credit 505 35 505 1010 2 1010 45 Fredrik Eden 1 1000 1000 1 1000 46 Rory Maclean 34 448 30 498 946 2 946 47 Dennis Wilkinson 2 940 940 1 940 48 Mark Prior 3 927 927 1 927 49 Trevor Pering 451 credit 451 902 2 902 50 Julia Doubson 6 881 881 1 881 51 Erin Schirm 8 879 879 1 879 52 Dennis Wildfogel 3 830 830 1 830 53 Kim Van Berkel 4 828 828 1 828 54 Jonathan Owens 7 784 784 1 784 55 Holly Gaston 10 755 755 1 755 56 Jeffrey Goodwin 11 753 753 1 753 57 Kestrel Owens 8 744 744 1 744 58 Thorsten Achterkirc 12 656 656 1 656 59 Deron van Hoff 13 653 653 1 653 60 Kelsey Breseman 14 649 649 1 649 61 David Harrison 23 632 632 1 632 62 Johanna Karras 24 631 631 1 631 63 Bob Cooley 25 627 627 1 627 64 Daniel Sebo 22 620 620 1 620 65 Brian Gaston 31 485 485 1 485 66 Rosemary Johnson 33 447 447 1 447 67 Jamie Maclean 34 432 432 1 432 68 Bryan Madison 35 426 426 1 426 69 Greg Khanlarov credit 0 0 1 0
Quadruped
1 Presto 1 1000 1 1000 1 1000 3000 3 3000