Training Log Archive: barbIn the 7 days ending Dec 29, 2012:
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Friday Dec 28, 2012 #
Note
Weekly meeting with Erin and Guy on Thursday:
- Standing team invitation next steps
- Guy will review the form
- One last send to JTESC
- Erin will write down a rubric for team selection; Barb & Guy will review, and Erin will use it when presenting JTESC with his recommendations for selections in January. Rubric won’t be written in the application. Main focus will probably be on rankings on orange (girls) / brown (boys) and above, running speed, and whether they answered the questions in the application (but not subjective assessment of whether someone seems more “enthusiastic” than someone else or anything like that).
- Guy has arranged with Robin to get the addresses so Erin can send personalized standing team invitation letters to the top juniors. We discussed the list of invitees to make sure that it is fairly chosen. Anyone can apply to join the standing team. We will also send email to the parents so they know that a letter from Erin is coming.
- We are aiming at posting the application around January 1st.
- Guy will review the form
- Connecting with clubs
- Planned meetings
- Barb will talk to people from COC, including Bresemans and Bob Forgrave, this coming weekend.
- Barb will meet with Trinka Gillis from BAOC on Thursday January 3rd.
- Barb & Erin will meet with Gary Kraght from BAOC on Saturday January 5th. Gary is the BAOC A meet coordinator, is interested in Adventure Running Kids, and is helping to organize the Sierra SummerFest - we’ll talk about what the junior component would be for that.
- Barb is planning to propose to NEOC in January that we talk with ARK about the possibility of working together, keeping Erin in the loop.
- Barb will talk to people from COC, including Bresemans and Bob Forgrave, this coming weekend.
- Topics
- What can OUSA do to support your juniors?
- Explain Development Team; ask how to sign their kids up
- Explain Standing Team; ask about kids who might be appropriate
- Need mentors & coaches & parents & teachers & fundraisers & mappers & administrators
- Need juniors to take leadership roles on JDT
- European trip next summer
- Sustainable and fun programs for kids to grow our orienteering community
- Junior training camps and meetings with Junior Coach in 2013
- Our budget and need for funds
- Opportunities to employ development and standing team juniors to support travel to A meets, training camps, and international meets
- What can OUSA do to support your juniors?
- Planned meetings
- Development team
- We’ll tackle this once the standing team application is finished. We anticipate rolling it out early in January.
- Guy will talk to Peter Goodwin about the timing.
- We’ll tackle this once the standing team application is finished. We anticipate rolling it out early in January.
- Proposed OUSA rules changes
- Guy will draft these and get them to JTESC in time to get feedback and see if we have agreement before the Board meeting. Then it will go to Clare as our recommendation.
- Guy will draft these and get them to JTESC in time to get feedback and see if we have agreement before the Board meeting. Then it will go to Clare as our recommendation.
- Barb will request time at the Board meeting for JTESC (email sent 12/28/2012):
- Rationale for selection process changes
- Competition format (start conversation; discuss reasons for considering a change)
- Our approach to sustainable kids programs; share where we are with COC, BAOC, NEOC.
- Junior team finances (but only with agreement from Tim and Guy; this has gotten pushed aside lately to deal with other things)
- Rationale for selection process changes
- Training camps in the spring
- Kansas City, March 2-3 (or maybe Thursday & Friday prior to the A meet). Erin has been talking with the A meet organizer about this. We discussed this and gave Erin some feedback and ideas; he’ll consider them and propose a plan. We think it would be good to check with coaches who might bring their kids.
- Arizona (Feb 18-23). Barb has spoken with Tucson club; looks like this is a go. Now we just need to attract some people.
- Kansas City, March 2-3 (or maybe Thursday & Friday prior to the A meet). Erin has been talking with the A meet organizer about this. We discussed this and gave Erin some feedback and ideas; he’ll consider them and propose a plan. We think it would be good to check with coaches who might bring their kids.
- Uniforms
- Erin will act for JTESC on the issue of uniforms. He has requested a copy of the O21E contract from Glen so he understands what our responsibilities are, and what’s possible. Erin has some concerns about how the uniforms are currently sourced; we discussed various of these issues and what might be done about them. Erin will let Barb & Guy know if he needs help working with OUSA and the other teams on uniforms.
- Erin will act for JTESC on the issue of uniforms. He has requested a copy of the O21E contract from Glen so he understands what our responsibilities are, and what’s possible. Erin has some concerns about how the uniforms are currently sourced; we discussed various of these issues and what might be done about them. Erin will let Barb & Guy know if he needs help working with OUSA and the other teams on uniforms.
- Erin is going to talk to Sacramento area Waldorf schools about doing a 7th grade orienteering block.
- The Meaning of Rankings: Barb will meet with J-J to see if we can answer several questions about rankings, including
- The exact process; how it works
- The effect of changing to top 4 races instead of top 4 plus the best half of the remainder. Give specific examples of how this would have changed rankings in the past. How would this change incentives to attend meets?
- Incorporating Canadian races; how would that work; what would the effect be
- How are rankings affected by other people on the course who aren’t the same age category; how has that changed over the years?
- Example: in 2010 there were three boys vying for the last JWOC selection spot. At interscholastics, one ran varsity and this got the rankings so that he made the JWOC team; the other ran M20 and missed out. Was this fair?
- Is there a way to weight more recent races higher, and does this make sense?
- The exact process; how it works
- Guy explained which races count toward rankings, and in particular, the Interscholastics do count.
- Note: after this call, I found out how they are calculated from J-J. They are used in both the red and the green ranking calculations (for varsity boys, for example). But each race is only counted in either green or red for counting the number of races that a person attended (for the threshold for getting ranked).
- Note: regional interscholastics races, such as Georgia, do not work this way: varsity does *not* get ranked on green or red.
- Note: after this call, I found out how they are calculated from J-J. They are used in both the red and the green ranking calculations (for varsity boys, for example). But each race is only counted in either green or red for counting the number of races that a person attended (for the threshold for getting ranked).
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Sunday Dec 23, 2012 #
Bicycling 45:00 [3]
Biked to Logan.
