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• 🐦 Irish Orienteering Championships Early Bird Ends Monday
• The Outdoor Partnership Survey
• 🧭 🏃‍♂️ 54 Mini Kites and a Lot of Gaffling! Club Meet Relay Success
• ⏰ Sign-up closes for Relay Club Meet on Tuesday 10/3
• Attention All Event Planners!!!!

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• 🐦 Irish Orienteering Championships Early Bird Ends Monday - ⏰ Early bird entries for this year’s Irish Orienteering Championships close this Monday 23 March. It would be great if as many LVO members as possible come down to Cork for the May Bank Holiday weekend (2-4 May) to represent our club and to compete together at the Monday’s relays. Full details here: https://ioc.orienteering.ie/irish-orienteering-champs Enter directly here: https://fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?EventID=4146 Any questions, do get in touch! Read More ...
• The Outdoor Partnership Survey - The Outdoor Partnership is currently gathering feedback on participation in outdoor activities, as well as the barriers people may face in getting involved. This short, 5-minute survey will help The Outdoor Partnership secure funding from the National Lottery to continue delivering outdoor activity programmes across Northern Ireland. For example, they’ve previously worked with Ric to develop orienteering opportunities. With continued funding, they’ll be able to expand this work further by partnering with governing bodies and local groups to create clearer pathways into a wide range of sports and activities. 👉 Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and support this important… Read More ...
• 🧭 🏃‍♂️ 54 Mini Kites and a Lot of Gaffling! Club Meet Relay Success - What a fantastic morning at today’s Club Meet in Lady Dixon Park! A huge thank-you goes to our brilliant coaches Philip, Helen and Olivia Baxter, along with their ever-helpful assistant Alan Elwood. More than 30 club members turned out and were treated to a lively session focused on relay skills ahead of the upcoming JK and Irish Orienteering Championships. Philip kicked things off with the help of some volunteer juniors, explaining the concept of “gaffling” — and why it’s very important not to blindly follow someone who might be heading to a completely different control! To put it all into practice,… Read More ...
• ⏰ Sign-up closes for Relay Club Meet on Tuesday 10/3 - SIGN UP NOW for Relay Training at Lady Dixon Park on Saturday 14 March, from 10am–2pm. Sign-up closes Tuesday 10 March at midnight. If you’ve got your eye on the relays at the Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering (JK) and the Irish Orienteering Championships, this is the session you don’t want to miss. Philip Baxter is bringing the full relay experience to Lady Dixon Park.    Full details here: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-meet-mar-26/ 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.