Junior Training in a Wintery Wicklows

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Junior training started on the weekend 13/14 Feb 16 with an Irish Squad training weekend. Rachel, Sophie and Andrew from LVO participated, with Steph, Alan and Alison providing coaching and feeding support (well mainly Steph and Alison for the food). The weekend started with a time trial run at Phoenix Park on Saturday morning. This is a difficult 1.4km loop taking in tricky contouring, short steep climbs and river crossings and all with fallen trees to negotiate and very thick mud making every climb difficult. C0ngrats to all who completed their runs in difficult conditions and very well done to Andrew Read More …

Hawkshead Junior Training Update From Steph and Sophie

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After an intrepid journey negotiating Black Friday traffic in Belfast, consulting my watch every 2 minutes on the stationary Airport Non- Express and finally paying £6 (well spent) for speedy security check, Sophie and I boarded the plane to Manchester with 2 minutes to spare. We met there with Pat ‘the Pied Piper’ McCavana and 7 M/ W16s from Dublin and divided up the kids between us. I got the boys and was treated to an eclectic musical soirée as we cruised up the M6 to the LakeDistrict and Hawkshead Youth Hostel. The forecast was appalling and after a fantastic Read More …

Training Sun 1 Nov

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There will be training available this Sun at Laganlands East (see the junior training section for the location details). We will meet at 1330 in the lay by 300 m from the entrance, opposite the boat club on the other side of the river. Alison Collins has planned this technical training day and we will be focusing on control description recognition and control site locations. Please email me (juniors at lvo.org.uk) by Fri to let me know you are coming so we can print enough maps.

N Ireland Road Relays: Victoria Park Belfast

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Well done the the our juniors Andrew, Peter and Rachel who took part in the N Ireland road relays at Victoria Park. They ran a fast paced race at just over 1600m (roughly a mile) and did very well, finishing one behind the other in the order given above and not that far behind the winner. There were a number of adults from the club at the race as well so well done to those that took part.

Changes to Junior Training

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Due to personal circumstances I have had to adjust the junior training programme. Please make sure you take a look at the junior training page to see the plan for the rest of this year. I’m also looking for someone to plan the junior training event on the 6 Dec at Ormeau Park please. Without a volunteer this will have to be cancelled. Alan

Rachel’s Lagganlia Report

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Day 1- After an early start to the catch our plane, a short visit to Edinburgh and a 3hr train journey, Andrew and I finally arrived in Aviemore. Here we met our coaches and fellow orienteers along with a heavy rain shower before boarding the minibuses to Lagganlia. On arriving we were shown our rooms along with the unlimited supplies of biscuits and toast. After dinner we took part in some ice-breakers, courtesy of Brian and Brenda the bears, before spending some futher time getting to know each other and heading to bed. Day 2- Day 2 consisted of an Read More …

Andrew’s Lagganlia Report

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Lagganlia is an orienteering camp run annually, by the British Orienteering Federation, for athletes aged between 12 and 14 (This is the M14 age group and W14 age group). The camp is aimed towards developing talent for orienteering throughout Britain by running a very tough but extremely fun week of technical orienteering training in the moorland and forests of Scotland. It runs during the summer holidays and this year it ran from the 25th of July to the 1st of August. A total of 24 athletes are selected from the 12 regions and this year Northern Ireland had 2 athletes Read More …

Junior Scottish 6 Days and International Selection

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A number of our juniors took part in the Scottish 6 Days near Inverness this year. They all did extremely well given the challenging levels of both the terrain and of the courses themselves, many of which ran on the same areas being used in the World Orienteering Championships underway at the same time. You can see all the results at the following link. We have also just found out that the following club juniors have been selected to race for Ireland at the forthcoming Junior Home Internationals at Magilligan in Oct this year. This is a fantastic achievement and represents lots Read More …

Lagganlia Success

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Our two club junior athletes that took part in the BOF training camp for W/M14s at Lagganlia in late Jul had a fantastic time. The training was first class on some very technically challenging terrain. On top of that they did everything from swimming in the sea to obstacle courses, night escape and evasion, learning to remove ticks and of course cake eating. Well done to Andrew E and Rachel C.

Lagganlia 2015

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The BOF ‘Lagganlia’ training camp is based at the Lagganlia OEC near Aviemore. It is aimed at M/W14’s and takes place from 25 Jul to 1 Aug. There are usually about 24 places for athletes on the camp so competition to get a place can be tough. This year we are delighted that two of our junior stars Andrew E and Rachel C have obtained places. They travel by flight to Edinburgh and then by train to Aviemore on Sat 25 Jul to start their week. This will be great fun but hard work as well, with two training sessions Read More …