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• Tables Updated after Gortalughany
• SHI/NI Champs Volunteers Needed
• Looking Ahead: LVO Chair Transition
• 🌃🏃‍♀️‍➡️WENT Plans🏃🌃
• 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Entries now open for NI Long Distance Champs on Meelmore Mountain

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Here are the first 100 hundred words of the latest posts to LVO’s news feed. Please note that hyperlinks appear as plain text in these snippets – click the heading to see the full post with working hyperlinks. The news page is here.

• Tables Updated after Gortalughany - The NISeries, the Colour Standards and the hCOW tables have been updated with the results of the NI Colour Series event at Gortalughany. The official NISeries tables can be found on the NIOA website but a copy is also available here. The colour standards and hCOW tables are accessible via the "STANDINGS" section of the club website but if, like me, you have trouble activating the links you can go back to basics and go from the "Resources" link as follows: click on "OneDrive Public" then: for NISeries - "[1] League & Series Tables>NISeries>NISeries2026.pdf" for Colour Standards - "[2} Club… Read More ...
• SHI/NI Champs Volunteers Needed - Organiser Chris Colwell is in search of volunteers during the SHI / NI long Champs on Saturday 3 October at Meelmore Mountain. If anyone is available to help out before or after their run it would be great if you could get in touch! He is looking in particular for car-parking marshalls, starts from 11.30-13.00 and an IT person on last shift (see image above). Read More ...
• Looking Ahead: LVO Chair Transition - After three glorious years, I’ve decided that it’s time to hand over the Chair role to another LVO member. I will step down at the next AGM, which will be held before 31 March 2027. I’m letting you know now so there is plenty of time to identify and welcome a new Chair and ensure a proper handover. Over the past three years, I’ve probably done more than is normally required of a Chair, largely to help establish and deliver LVO’s new strategy. The strategic pillars are now in place, so the incoming Chair can focus on the normal Chair… Read More ...
• 🌃🏃‍♀️‍➡️WENT Plans🏃🌃 - Plans are underway for a series of Wednesday Evening Night Training activities. As usual we will have a mix of training activities using real SI controls, interspersed with a few MapRuns. Pencil these in! You will see on he image below, we have a number locations already chosen - these are the ones where we will be using SI timing and controls. Philip Baxter is heading these activities up - if you would like to plan a fun training activity, he would be very happy for you to do so. WENTs are great for those new to planning, as they… Read More ...

About Orienteering

Videos: Introduction to Orienteering | Setting the map | Using the Compass | Attack Points | Aiming Off | Large Contour Features | Route Choice | Intricate Contours.

Websites: Learn Orienteering (e.g. map colours, legends, control symbols and much else besides) | O-training.net (a resource for orienteering training).

Read about the different types of orienteering here and you’ll find some tips here.