
- Wednesday 28 January 2025
With one race of our 2024/25 Winter Adventure Race Series to go, the battle for podium places is really hotting up! We have looked at the scores to date and summarised the state of play below for our five-hour categories. There’s a lot to play for in the Forest of Dean and we’re excited to see how it all pans out.
Questars Winter Series Championship – a reminder
The Questars Winter Series Championship covers our four winter races. Everyone’s top three results count towards their series score, with a minimum of three races required to be considered for prizes. Series points are calculated per individual participant / team member. If an individual’s team composition between races changes, their series points are unaffected. Individuals in teams with the same team members throughout the series will gain the same series points and ranking on the series leaderboard.
In the event of a tie at the top, head-to-head race results will be used to determine the series winner (i.e. who beat who in the races in which all the tied participants took part). If this is also tied (e.g. everyone beat each other once) then the combined times (only for these head-to-head races) will be used, with the person with the fastest cumulative time being the series champion.
Race scores are converted into series points and series points from different races are added together for each person, to give their series score.
Series points are calculated by dividing an individual’s race score by the overall race winner’s score and multiplying by 800.
An example is shown below:
Pos. | Race Score | Series Points | How Calculated? |
1st | 700 | 800 | (700/700)*800 |
28th | 400 | 457 | (400/700)*800 |
Calculating series points like this improves consistency throughout the series by minimising the impact of variable conditions between races which are beyond our control e.g. the weather.
Vets Scoring – a reminder
Our Vets category starts at 50 and an individual’s score is adjusted above this age with individuals receiving a 1.5% increase for every year that they are over 50. How this works is set out below:
Age | Score | Vets | Calculation |
50 | 500 | 508 | 500+(500*(1*1.5%)) |
55 | 500 | 545 | 500+(500*(6*1.5%)) |
All vets team members take the age of their oldest team member and ages are taken as of 1 March each year. The Vets score is then adjusted by the Series scoring (set out above) to arrive at the Vets Series Score.
The state of play with one race to go
The only thing clear in reviewing the current leaderboard is that nothing is clear! We are set for exciting finishes across the board with a number of racers within touching distance of the top of the leaderboard within their respective categories.
We have looked not only at the current leaderboard but also the leaderboard taking each individual’s two best scores from the first three races (as the three best scores count giving each individual opportunity to add to this).
There is a lot to still be decided in the Forest of Dean on 15 February and it will be fascinating to see how it all plays out! Please click here to review the full leaderboard, we have looked at each of the five-hour categories below.
Full Female
Taking three races, Julie Banton leads the way with 1,620 followed by Charlotte Griffiths and Susie Peart.
Pos. | Name | Overall Score |
1 | Julie Banton | 1620 |
2 | Charlotte Griffiths | 1426 |
3 | Susie Peart | 1360 |
The leaderboard after two races shows an incredibly close race with less than 50 points separating the top six! Emma Gill leads the way by 15 points from Helen Chapman (our inaugural Winter Series Champion last year) with Julia Robson, Pollie Boyle, Eleanor Thackeray and Shelly Hufner all within touching distance. This one is going to be incredibly tight – we’ll need to pack our abacus!
Pos. | Name | Top-2 Score |
1 | Emma Gill | 1265 |
2 | Helen Chapman | 1250 |
3 | Julia Robson | 1229 |
3= | Pollie Boyle | 1229 |
3= | Eleanor Thackeray | 1229 |
6 | Shelly Hufner | 1217 |
7 | Julie Banton | 1117 |
Full Open
Counting three races, Doug Bewley leads the way with 2,069 points ahead of Simon Jennison and Tom Hards.
Pos. | Name | Overall Score |
1 | Doug Bewley | 2069 |
2 | Simon Jennison | 1980 |
3 | Tom Hards | 1963 |
The leaderboard after two races shows Campbell Walsh (our reigning Winter Series Champion) leading the way at the top after two wins from two races and with a seemingly unassailable lead over Carl Silver (our reigning Summer Series Champion) in second place – the nature of our races though means that pretty much anything can happen. There is a real battle for the final podium place with five racers within one hundred points of Tom Hards.
Pos. | Name | Top-2 Score |
1 | Campbell Walsh | 1600 |
2 | Carl Silver | 1513 |
3 | Tom Hards | 1452 |
4 | Doug Bewley | 1417 |
5 | Rob Smart | 1372 |
6 | Nick Gracie | 1346 |
7 | Simon Jennison | 1345 |
8 | Daniel Thorby | 1343 |
Full Female Vets
Taking three races into account, Julie Banton leads the way with 1644 points. The leaderboard taking the top-two results shows a real battle at the top of the podium with just eight points separating Pollie Boyle and Ella Pyman! Emma Roe, Liz Jones and Julie Banton are all in with a great shout of the podium.
Pos. | Name | Top-2 Score |
1 | Pollie Boyle | 1247 |
2 | Ella Pyman | 1239 |
3 | Emma Roe | 1196 |
4 | Liz Jones | 1140 |
5 | Julie Banton | 1134 |
Full Open Vets
Taking three races, David Chaplin leads the way with an adjusted Series score of 1758 points. The leaderboard taking the top-two results shows an incredibly tight race with 82 points separating the top seven! Dave Salter leads the way with 1432 points ahead of Nick Gracie and Rob Smart. This one will really come down to the wire!
Pos. | Name | Top-2 Score |
1 | David Salter | 1432 |
2 | Nick Gracie | 1406 |
3 | Rob Smart | 1394 |
4 | David Chaplin | 1379 |
5 | Jeremy Waite | 1376 |
6 | Phil Haycock | 1373 |
7 | Andy Prince | 1350 |