Author: Alan Gartside

From the website home page go: “Resources>OneDrive Public>[3]hCOW>hCOW2026>hCALF2026” With 5 events gone folk are now starting to reach their four counting events, thus the asterisks in the hCOW table. Remember the scores are place points, so the lower the better. The hCOW table points are awarded on the basis of consistency, and the Regatta table points for improvement. The Handicap table will show you how your handicap (your expected speed) has changed across the series.

Never rains but it pours! After this morning’s update of the various tables the Barnett’s results are now included in the hCALF tables. Some things to note about the various tables. The NISeries now includes dnf results; although they don’t score any points, they count towards the four events needed to be in contention at the end of the year. The various tables will come to life after their next update as the various competitions reach their minimum numbers of scoring results. Thus the NISeries after Slieve Croob (4 out of seven), hCOW also after Slieve Croob (5/9) and hCALF Read More …

Sorry about the delay in bringing various tables up-to-date, but the Spring rush of map printing duties has had to take precedence. You can now find the NISeries table (copy of the official version on the NI website), the Colour Standards table, the hCOW tables and the hCALF tables after Magilligan and Antrim Castle. Work is about to get under way to include Barnett’s Park in the hCALF tables. Point to note; the Colour Standards table is full of vertical tags to allow you to connect your line of achievement to the header or footer of the page and to Read More …

After the flat grassy terrain of Ormeau the hilly woods of Belvoir certainly made their mark – for the first time to my recollection nobody beat their handicap! That doesn’t mean that some handicaps have not come down. When the results are arranged by variance (handicap minus event speed) it’s the middle of the list who keeps their handicap unchanged – it’s a way of taking account of the different terrains that make our sport so fascinating. Their are now tables for consistency (hCOW), where the aforementioned middle-of-the-list scores best, and for improvement (Regatta) where the lowest variance scores best. Read More …

The results from Ormeau Park have now been put into the mill and have produced your starting handicaps for the 2026 series. Due to the variation in technical difficulty and terrain your handicaps from previous series are not carried forward (unlike hCOW) so Ormeau has not coughed up any points towards your hCOW (consistency) or Regatta (improvement) scoring – that starts next week! You’ll find the Ormeau results on the website by following this link:- STANDINGS > hCOW > hCOW2026 > hCALF2026

Sorry about the delay, but printer issues have been occupying my LVO-time recently. Hopefully, things have now quietened down on that quarter, allowing me back to results processing. The way to access the various tables is to go to “Resources” at the top of the LVO home page and then click “OneDrive Public” in the drop-down list. All these tables have fixtures information in them but I’m having some trouble working out a definitive list so treat the dates and venues with some caution!

I have just successfully completed the printing of the maps for next Saturday’s Club Meet on Slievenagore so it seems that LVO Map Printing Services is back on the air. However, I have no idea why the printer and PC stopped talking to each other and, worse still, why they became buddies again so a word of warning if your submitting files for the printing of maps – make sure you leave enough time to find other printing facilities should the same thing happen again.

The club printer has just developed a fault which leaves me unable to print event maps. Until I can resolve the problem LVO Map Printing Services will be off the air. Alan Gartside

With the colour event season about to get under way you should, by now, have decided which colour you’re going to target, whether for Colour Series points or for Standards achievement. To help with the latter the Colour Standards table has been reset for 2026. The 2024 results have been removed (they are now outside the 12-month window in which your best 3 results contribute), the “current standard” column is based on that window, the “2026 standard” column will start to fill as results come in and early 2025 results drop out (it replaces the 2025 standard which is now Read More …

With Gortin being the last colour event of the year, the tables are now published in their final form. Apologies for the delay in getting the sums done, but with 2 events in the week folllowing Gortin it was map printing that had to take priority. The official NISeries tables are on the NIOA website but you can find a copy in the LVO website at: Resources>OneDrive Public>[1] League & Series Tables>NISeries>NISeries2025.pdf Congratulations to all our winners but, as I pointed out after Tyrella, there are several non-LVO names in there so there’s still room for improvement. There was also Read More …