Venue Castlewellan – Forest Park
Date Sat, 15th Feb 25
Starts 18:00 to 19:00
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Event Description
| Date | Saturday 15 February 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Venue | Castlewellan Forest Park | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event Format | Northern Ireland Night Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Online Entry | CANCELLED DUE TO STORM DAMAGE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SI Entries | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Online Entry closes | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registration, Start and Finish | Registration is online via the SI Entries system. The start and finish of all courses will be at small car park at the southeastern end of the main lake. Please use the upper main car park for car parking. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price (TBC) | The Score Champs and the Night Champs can be entered individually, or a discount for both!
Join a NI Club today (choose from LVO, FERMO and NWOC) and benefit from reduced member rates for the rest of 2025.
*Family is the equivalent of 2 seniors + 1 junior.
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| Terrain Summary | Castlewellan Forest Park is dominated by the park’s centrally located lake, the eastern end of which is mainly typical parkland with scattered mature trees, the forest carpark and visitor centre, and a large campground.
Most of the competition terrain will be in mixed hardwood/conifer forest that surrounds the lake and the hill of Slievenaslat. Large areas of the forest have recently been cleared and patches of rhododendron have been removed. Remaining areas of forest are of good general run ability although there are many areas of undergrowth (brambles, nettles etc) especially along path edges and plantation margins. Courses are planned to avoid coming into close contact with the main lake which dominates the ground of the forest. Keep away from deep water! |
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| Previous Maps/Routegadget | Castlewellan 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Notes |
The NI Night Championships will have the following classes. Competitors can choose to run up a class, e.g. an M50 may want to run the Long course but must then compete as M Open:
Note that If a M/W14 wishes 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 juniors and so no M/W14 can run unaccompanied i.e. run competitively at the NI Night Champs. The adult must be an experienced orienteer holding current club membership who is capable of shadowing the junior for the entire length of the course. |
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| First Aid and Safety | There will be a first aid and a qualified first aider available at registration. Registration is also a safe place for lost juniors to wait.
Please do not come to the event if you are unwell. Please bring and carry any medication you might need, especially inhalers and EpiPen’s. If 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. All participants must return to download, whether they complete the course or not. This is to account for all competitors, ensuring everyone’s safe 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 download immediately to prevent the event safety team searching for you. |
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| Kit requirements | Full body cover is mandatory.
A whistle (emergency alert is 6 loud blasts per minute) is mandatory. A waterproof jacket may also be mandatory if the organisers decide the weather requires one, so bring one along just in case. A fully operational and charged head torch is mandatory. Carrying 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. |
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| Parking | Car parking and download will be in the main carpark in Castlewellan Forest Park. There is a cost of £5 per car if entering before 5pm on the day. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toilets | Use toilets facilities at the Kilmeggan Centre, Castlewellan beforehand. |
Location
Castlewellan – Forest Park
Forest Park View
Castlewellan
BT31 9BU
Volunteers
To volunteer at this event please email volunteer@lvo.org.uk. You can find information on each role here as well as the current list of volunteers.