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❗Don’t miss out on the chance to receive great coaching on contoured mountain terrain. 🏃‍♀️ All ages and abilities welcome. 🙂 Catch up with club mates and meet new members, with the chance to socialise afterwards. 💻 For more information visit: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-meet-march-2024-meelmore/ Register before midnight on Tuesday 7 May HERE. Filling up fast – already nearly half the places available are booked, and last Club Meet was over-subscribed!

Whilst normal orienteers would be resting up after their Drum Manor outing yesterday, LVO’s intrepid fixtures team spent their Sunday planning our event locations for the next FIVE years! Planning this far out helps us to do a couple of things: 1) It means we can make sure our maps are updated in time, ready to go for the season when they’ll be used. 2) It gives our volunteers enough time to plan, organise and control the courses. 3) It allows us to see gaps in the terrain maps that we’d like to use, and look for access to new Read More …

We have a cracking TEN teams for IOC 2024. Hosted by our friends in WEGO, and based around Lough Ree, the relays follow 3 days of individual competition. A wonderful test for tired legs (and tired brains), we certainly are one of the largest clubs and one of the loudest on the run-in for ALL our teams 🙂

Huge congratulations to our very own Paul Pruzina who finished top 10 in the M21 Elite British Orienteering Long Distance Championships in Whitby, North Yorkshire last weekend. An incredible and well deserved result! Full results can be found here: https://www.theboc.org.uk/page/551

🤸‍♀️ Looking forward to having a mid-week adventure throughout May and June? Our ever popular weekly WEE (Wednesday Evening Event) series venues can now be revealed – keep your eyes peeled for entry information coming soon 🤓

At Saturday’s Hillsborough Club Meet, Ric, Áine and Alan passed their Level 2 BOF Coaching Qualification with flying colours 🥳 This would not have been possible without the generous support of the Orienteering Foundation, and the wisdom and patience of their instructor/mentor/problem-solver Helen Baxter. Thanks too to their assessors, Philip Baxter and Raymond Finlay from Fermanagh Orienteers.

I’m planning to set up a TrailO exercise at our top-grade events this year. It will take the form of a TempO cluster near assembly or on the way to the start. It is the intention (assuming all the stars align!) to have one at each of: Carnearney 1st June Slieve Martin 22nd June Tollymore campsite 22nd June Whitespots 7th September Glenarriff 19th October and, if re-arranged, Castlewellan. The results will be combined to form the Club TrailO Championship 2024. This was last contested in 2018, won by Lyle Fleming. It’s time an attempt was made to wrest his crown Read More …

⏰ Registration for Saturday’s Club Meet closes TONIGHT (Tuesday 9 April) at midnight, so sign-up here for coaching and a chance to catch-up with club mates – free for all NIOA and OI members: https://forms.office.com/r/Bzwd8NZE4e

❗Don’t miss out on the chance to receive great coaching alongside other orienteers. 🙂 Catch up with club mates and meet new members with the chance to socialise afterwards. 🏃‍♀️ Tailored coaching for all ages and abilities. 💰 Free for Members – Adult non-members £3. 💻 Please register online HERE. Closing date for registration Tuesday 9 April at midnight, so that we can print the right number of maps! 💻 For more information visit: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-meet-april-2024-hillsborough-forest/

We have a fantastic team of volunteers who work hard behind the scenes to make our orienteering events happen. It is important that we make it as easy as possible for them to carry out the tasks needed for events to take place. For this reason and for consistency, we’ve decided to streamline and clarify our event entry closing dates and entry on day policy. Online SIEntries Closing Days and Times Having consistency with these closing days and times will allow printing of the right numbers of maps, preparation of SI Timing entries file and downloading of start lists.  Entry on Read More …