Author: Richard Gamble

🌞Our sizzling programme of Summer events is bound to raise the mercury levels and excite us all to get running outdoors 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ There is so much happening across the LVO catchment area over the next month or so to get involved with and invite others to. This is what’s coming up! 🔥1️⃣WEE Series – Wednesday Evening Events in August. Long and Short Courses to run walk, for all ages and abilities. Wed 2 Aug – WEE#5 UU Jordanstown Wed 9 Aug – WEE#6 Lady Dixon Park Wed 16 Aug – WEE#7 Antrim Castle Garden Wed 23 Aug – WEE#8 Barnett Read More …

If any of you know the whereabouts of this trophy please can you get in touch with myself or Gordon Stephens. Thank you!

Congratulations to LVO’s very own Paul Pruzina with his achievements so far at this years World Championships. Over the last few days Paul has been representing Ireland in the stunning Flims/Laxx area of the Swiss Alps – someone has to I suppose! The Middle Distance Qualifying races took place on Wednesday. These races determine who gets into the final and their starting positions, with the fastest qualifiers starting last in the final. After qualifying for the Men’s Middle Distance Final, Paul was the 8th starter out of the field of 61. He had 5.9km of technically challenging terrain ahead of Read More …

Social media is becoming increasingly important in engaging our members and reaching out to the wider community. There are so many sports and activities out there, so we will need members to use Social Media to raise the profile and highlight our amazing sport and the opportunities people have to take part. Here is some info: The aim is to provide a practical and engaging two hour course to cover the basic knowledge of: To register, please sign up online: https://form.jotform.com/231723914899368 Closing date for Registration: Friday 14th July If this interests you please sign up – sorry for the short notice, Read More …

👍Many of you have been involved with contributing to the new 5 year Strategic Plan – thank you so much for helping with this. 👏Huge thanks go to Moire O’Sullivan who has had hours of conversations with members and non-members associated with our club/sport, listened to your thoughts and ideas, collated all this evidence and chaired the strategy planning discussions. 🎯Members of the club met on Saturday 17 June for a Strategy meeting to discuss the findings of this feedback which were used to form a vision for our club and set out a plan of action over the next Read More …

The fantastic NI Colour Series event on Saturday 24 June at Meelmore hosted the annual LVO Club Championship event. All who attended will agree that the courses were certainly fit for a Championship – thank you to George Savell for planning such a challenge for us to enjoy/endure! It is sometimes a bit tricky to decide what colour course is best matched with each age/gender class. Some people bravely ran up a course meaning they were competing with people in a different age category. This means that some winners are being awarded a title for an age class which is Read More …

Our 4th and final June WEE took place at Belvoir Forest. Fortunately the dry weather returned for the 40ish participants to enjoy. 👋 Mother and son team Norma Rea and James Ewart planned two excellent courses using a great mix of forest trails and the more open areas, so a great mix of running. 🥇🥈🥉 Being the final WEE event in June we now have the the results for this months series! Long – Men: This was a very closely fought series. The top 5 men were all within 7 points. Lyle Fleming M60 came out top with the maximum Read More …

Those of us lucky enough to get down to County Down at the weekend enjoyed a real varied selection of racing along with the usual craic. 🏖 🏡 Friday evening saw almost 50 of us running round the streets and Parks of the seaside town of Newcastle. The Urban courses were fast (if you could cope with the humidity) and although it is challenging to make the town technically difficult, Planners Fionne and Moire kept things interesting with route choice and control locations. Others involved in supporting this event were Stephen Gilmore- Map Corrections, Steph- Controller/ Set-Out/Collection/ Starts, Dan Earnshaw- Read More …

🤿 Where did all the lovely sunny Wednesday evenings go? Over 30 of us braved the biblical weather which welcomed us to Bangor this past Wednesday, certainly poor Alan the planner who was out all evening got a good soaking! 👋 Participants enjoyed fun courses with lots of changes in direction. This and good use of a central control on the long course kept us needing to keep our maps orientated on the exits from controls to have a clean run. 🥇🥈🥉 We now have people who have completed three June events and are sitting pretty at the top of Read More …

There is a band parade in Ballynahinch tomorrow evening. It would be worth trying to get through the town before 7pm if possible. When I looked the outward parade was 1930-2000 and the return was 2000-2300. I have asked the parade commission to check with the organiser as the return times seem very odd. Details can be found here: viewparade – Northern Ireland Parades Commission