The 20th Auckland Orienteering Summer Series

Alistair Posted: 25 November 2007, 4:45 PM   On http://www.orienteeringauckland.org.nz/ it says that its the "20th" Summer Series?! What were those Summer Series races before 1988 then? Or is someone just made this up as an excuse to celebrate something?   SJ Posted: 25 November 2007, 5:13 PM   If the first Summer Series was in 1988 that would make 2007-2008 the 20th series would it not?   Alistair Posted: 26 November 2007, 12:40 AM   Yes it would Simon. But I ran (and even planned at least one) summer series races between 1983 and 1987 and I suspect they existed even before 1983. My mother even ran a race in February 1976 in One Tree Hill which could even have been considered a summer series race although I'm not sure it was marketed as such back then.