Author: Richard Gamble

☀ Fine weather and being the final WEE in June, brought a strong field of runners out last night – about 80 participants (and a fox) enjoyed the challenge of navigating round Belvoir Park Forest and all the craic afterwards. 👏Firstly we need to thank all those involved in putting on the event, especially Fred Hammond who planned some challenging legs for us to talk about for a while and organiser, Mark Earnshaw. Others who supported the great evening were, Dan on registration/IT, Ric on downloads, Daphne on starts, mapper Bill with all the recent storm updates, control collectors Joe, Read More …

With 3 events and 187 competitive runs is was a busy weekend of Orienteering at LVO’s annual Tollymore Festival of Orienteering. For a second consecutive year, the weekend kicked off in Warrenpoint for the Urban race, which counted in the NI Urban League. This is such a great area for route choice and scenery and local planner, George Savell, made the most of it. A hot evening with a few long legs sapped the energy levels before dipping into tricky intricate housing and footpaths. Big thanks to the other event officials Sarah Knight (Organiser) and Greg McCann (Controller) for making Read More …

🏃‍♀️It is great to see the WEE series continue to attract around 70 participants, with us all enjoying another warm and sunny evening running around lovely parkland. 🗺Thank you to the planner this week Denis Murphy and to Aine McCann who helped on the day set out controls, possibly with Mark Earnshaw (sorry if I have got this wrong!) who was also coordinator for this evening. 👏Again thanks to all who made the evening so enjoyable – Dan Earnshaw on the (registration, timing, IT), Mark and Aine (starts), Alan Gartside (map printing), James Earnshaw, Fred Hamond and Aine (control collection), Read More …

🏃‍♀️It was again great to see about 70 participants travel to Hillsborough and enjoy a stunning evening in this great forest park. 🗺The planner this week was Emma Graham. Mentored by Ric Gamble, this was Emma’s first time planning and she did a fantastic job on a map that needed a lot of updates due to recent windfall. Those who managed to stay on a good line enjoyed nice open forest running, mixed in with the path and track network. Thank you to Geoffrey and Stephen who made the temporary map updates. 👏A big thank you again to all who Read More …

🏃‍♀️ Great to see another really positive turn out at last night’s WEE. 70 participants both club members and newcomers enjoyed the courses set out for us in and around the Orangefield and Greenville parks. 🗺 The planner this week was James Earnshaw who set two enjoyably challenging courses for us to enjoy. For the long course James took us into a little urban area which mixed things up for us. 👏 A big thank you again to all who made the evening so enjoyable – planner James, Alan Brett (Coordinator and IT), Wilbert Hollinger and Mark Earnshaw (starts), Alan Read More …

🏃‍♀️A very healthy 70 participants joined in with the map madness in last nights WEE at Ballyclare. 🗺The planner this week was Lyle Fleming. His imaginative planning, using a map flip, allowed us to stay within the park making full use of this small area. Ignoring the odd nettle sting, the two courses were enjoyed by us all. 👏A big thank you again to all who made the evening so enjoyable – planner Lyle, Alan Brett (Coordinator and IT), Thomas (starts), Alan Gartside (map printing), Billy Reed (control collection), Geoffrey Collins (results). People I always forget to thank, (sorry!) are Read More …

😮An amazing 150 participants picked up a map and ran around Antrim Castle Grounds in last nights WEE (and that’s not including parents and siblings who came along with the 95 school children). We were again blessed with another beautiful sunny evening for us to enjoy the fast courses. 🗺The planner this week was, Chloe Reed, who made great use of this small area and the two courses were really well received by both novice and experienced orienteers. 👏So, a big thanks to all who made the evening so enjoyable – planner Chloe, Alan Brett (Coordinator and IT), Peter Gamble, Read More …

For those attending WEE3 at Antrim Castle Gardens, please park in the Castle Mall Car park. Turn off the Dublin Road (A6) onto Castle Way. You will filter off Castle Way and loop round under the road to enter the car park. Allow about 5-10 minutes to get to registration/start. Enter Antrim Castle Gardens by crossing at the pedestrian crossing at the junction between the Dublin Road and Castle Way. Children should be escorted by parents. Follow the signage/tape to the registration/start/finish. Please keep to this route to avoid out of bounds. The route is shown in the map below.

☀Another sunny evening welcomed 70 runners to Barnett’s Demesne on Wednesday evening. 🗺Fresh from planning his first WEE last year, Brian Crothers, provided two thoroughly entertaining courses for us to enjoy. Fast parts over open land mixed with forest sections, kept us thinking (or should have, some of us switched off on leg 11-12). 👏Thanks to planner Brian, along with Matthew Crothers (setting out), Mark Earnshaw (Organiser), Chris Colwell (IT), Fred Hamond (starts), Alan Gartside (map printing), Harry (photos) and control collectors Sarah Gamble, Colin Smith, James Earnshaw and Poppy Gribben. 🥇Results can be found here: https://lvo.org.uk/liveresults/ The series handicap Read More …

Unfortunately Ards and North Down Borough Council have informed us that Cairn Wood is going to be closed to the public until the end of March. This week there will be heavy machinery brought in to clear the fallen trees and then paths will need repaired. We have therefore had to cancel the LVO Club Score Champs on Saturday 22 March, with the hope to be able to reinstate this event when the forest is fit for use. We appreciate the effort which goes into organising and planning events, so thank you to Alan, Steph and David who are the Read More …