BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-827@lvo.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251108T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251108T193000 DTSTAMP:20251109T120749Z URL:https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/ni-night-championships-2025/ SUMMARY:NI Night Championships 2025 DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nDate\nSaturday 8 November 2025.\n\nThis is the postponed event from February 2025.\n\n\nVenue\nCastlewellan Forest\n\n\nEvent Forma t\nNorthern Ireland Night Championships\n\n\nOnline Entry\n.\n\n\nSI Entri es\n \n\n\nOnline Entry closes\nMidnight\, Sunday 2 November 2025\n\n\nReg istration\, Start and Finish\nRegistration is online via the SI Entries sy stem. The start and finish of all courses will be near the small car park at the southeastern end of the main lake. Please use the upper main car pa rk for car parking.\n\n\nPrice\n\n\n\nSaturday is a double-header day\, wi th the NICS/Leinster League Event in the morning and the NI Night Champs i n the evening. Each event can be entered individually\, or there is a disc ount for both.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMember\nMember\nNon-Member and Entry-on-Day\nN on-Member and Entry-on-Day\n\n\n\nOne Event\nTwo Events\nOne Event\nTwo Ev ents\n\n\nSenior (aged 21 or over)\n£12\n£20\n£16\n£25\n\n\nJunior or Student\n£6\n£10\n£8\n£12\n\n\nMaximum charge for a family*\n£30\n£5 0\n£40\n£62\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin a NI Club today (choose from LVO\, FERMO an d NWOC) and benefit from our reduced member rates for the rest of 2025.\n* Member includes IOA and IOF.\n**Family is the equivalent of 2 seniors + 1 junior.\nThere is no fee to hire an SI card if required\, but lost cards a re charged at £30. Sociable group / family fee where all are going round a course together – entry fee is per required number of maps i.e. one en try = one map.\n\n\n\n\nTerrain Summary\nCastlewellan Forest Park is domin ated by the park’s centrally located lake\, the eastern end of which is mainly typical parkland with scattered mature trees\, the forest carpark a nd visitor centre\, and a large campground.\n\nDue to storm damage\, we ha ve had to make the courses less technical and shorter than we wanted them to be.  Perhaps between orange and light-green\, and mostly based on path s.\n\nThere has been constant path clearing of fallen trees by the council service\; and several mountain bike trails still remain closed with uncle ared fallen trees. Where possible these have been marked out-of-bounds\, o r marked on the map with an X. There may be others\, so please be careful. A recent and new small network of paths near the walled garden has been r ecently added.\n\nThere are also many areas of undergrowth (brambles\, net tles etc) especially along path edges and plantation margins.\n\nThe area is popular amongst mountain bikers\, and despite the darkness\, some biker s may be out on the trails at this time of the event. There are many MB tr ails in the area north of the lake marked on the map\, some of which look obvious route choices. We have put advance public event notices in the par k to advise mountain bikers of our event in the hope this will act as a de terrent to bikers on the night.\n\nCourses are also planned to avoid comin g into close contact with the main lake which dominates the ground of the forest. Keep away from deep water!\n\n\nPrevious Maps/Routegadget\nCastlew ellan map was last used at the NICS on 25 June 2022. Previous routegadget map and courses can be found here: https://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/ #472\n\n\nCourse Notes\n\n\n\n\n\nThe NI Night Championships will have the following classes:\n\nEntry is by Class. Competitors can choose to run up a class\, e.g. an M50 may want to run the Long course but must then compe te as M Open. Conversely\, if you want to run a shorter course then select the closest age class for that course  - but note that you will be deeme d non-competitive for the class.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCourse\nClasses\n\n\nL ong (approx 4.9k\, 100m climb)\nM/W Open\n\n\nMedium (approx 3.2k. 60m cli mb)\nM/W Vet 45+\,  M Super Vet 55+\n\n\nShort (approx 2.0k\, 25m climb)\ nW Super vet 55+\, M/W Ultra vet 65+\, M/W16\n\n\n\nNote that If a M/W14 w ishes to run the NI Night Champs\, they can only do so by being shadowed by an adult\, and by being therefore non-competitive. LVO has a duty to ju niors and so no M/W14 can run unaccompanied i.e. run competitively at th e NI Night Champs. The adult must be an experienced orienteer holding curr ent club membership who is capable of shadowing the junior for the entire length of the course.\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Aid and Safety\nThere will be first aid and a qualified first aider available at registration. Registration i s also a safe place for lost children to wait.\nPlease do not come to the event if you are unwell.\nPlease bring and carry any medication you might need\, especially inhalers and EpiPen’s.\nIf you come across an injured or ill person\, please stop\, help and get further help. There will likely be qualified first aiders on the course who can stop to provide support.A ll participants must return to download\, whether they complete the course or not. This is to account for all competitors\, ensuring everyone’s sa fe return.Courses will close and controls collected in at 8.30pm sharp. If you are still out on the course at this time return to finish and downloa d immediately to prevent the event safety team searching for you.\n\n\nKit requirements\nFull body cover is mandatory.\nA whistle (emergency alert i s 6 loud blasts per minute) is mandatory.\nA waterproof jacket may also be mandatory if the organisers decide the weather requires one\, so bring on e along just in case.\nA fully operational and charged head torch is manda tory.\nCarrying a mobile phone is advised. We intend to record this mobile number at the start and this will enable event safety officials to reach out to competitor not returned by course closure.\n\n\nParking\nCar parkin g and download will be in the main carpark in Castlewellan Forest Park. Th ere is a cost of £5 per car if entering before 6pm on the day.\n\n\nToile ts\nPublic toilets are situated at the main car park. These are temporary toilets in the form of mobile cubicles. Other toilet facilities are locate d outside the forest park located at 17 Upper Square\, Castlewellan BT31 9 DD and are open until 8pm.\n\n\n LOCATION:Castlewellan Forest Park\, Castlewellan\, Castlewellan\, Down\, BT 31 9BU\, Mournes\, Northern Ireland GEO:54.262574;-5.958407 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Castlewellan\, Castlewellan \, Down\, BT31 9BU\, Mournes\, Northern Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE =Castlewellan Forest Park:geo:54.262574,-5.958407 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR