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The Scottish Six Day orienteering event is currently underway and there are four under 14 juniors from LVO there. This event is held every two years and is a top notch competition. In 2015 it will run alongside the World Championships so that is something for you all to aim for. There are about 4000 runners taking part from all over the world and with 30 runners or more in each class it is hard to do really well. Ben, Peter, Rachel and Luke are our LVO juniors doing the best they can and putting all their recent training and Read More …

N Ireland – Slieve Donard 850m Congratulations to Andrew E who this weekend (19 – 21 Jul 13) completed the last of the highest peaks in the 5 British Isle’s nations. Something that not a lot of people have done never mind 11 year olds. Ireland – Carrantuohill 1038m Wales – Snowdon 1085m Scotland – Ben Nevis 1344m England – Scafell Pike 978m Remember to let me know if you get up to anything exciting this summer and we can get it on the blog as well.

Outstanding in their filed The juniors had a great weekend of orienteering in South Down over the 21 – 23 Jun.  It started on the Fri night with an urban race round Newcastle. The colour series race was held on Sat and was followed by junior training with a chance to practice a stat course based on compass work. There followed a wet start on Sun when the juniors took part in a loop course through the forest and put their compass skills to the test. This was then followed by a club score course when the juniors got the Read More …

New post on the technical page telling you not to make the mistake I (Paul) did on Saturday – Compulsory Crossing Points.

More details are out about about the Tollymore Weekend of Orienteering (http://lvo.jimdo.com/tollymore-festival-of-orienteering/). There will be plenty of racing going on with events on Friday night (Urban race) and on Saturday and Sunday as well. Online entries can be found at  http://www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?EventID=86. Why not stay over and join in the BBQ and camping fun!! There will also be junior training on the Saturday and on the Sunday. Check out the Training Page for the details. I hope to see you all there. Lots of Fun in the Forest

Some more details added to the incentive scheme as we have had more people qualify for awards. Well done everyone. Keep the effort up.

Check out the Incentive Scheme page for an up to date listing on the story so far – keep those awards coming.

What colour standard are you?Colour standards are worked out by completing three courses of the same standard, within either:– 150% of the winners time– the time which 50% of finishers complete the course inEither or these is used to allow as many people as possible to achieve the colour standardA list of the standards people have achieved is here.

Getting ready to enter the woods Luke returns successfully 10 Juniors took part in compass training at Hillsborough Forest Park. This was an extension of the cones exercise from the last session. Like the cones exercise the course was made from a grid of 9 control sites but this time they were in the forest and some 50 – 100m apart. Juniors had loop courses to complete. They had to use the compass to keep the map set and make their way through the forest, without using the paths, to locate the next control site. Rachel heads in at speed. Read More …

Check out the training page for information on the next junior session at Hillsborough