Author: Richard Gamble

👍Thank you to everyone who completed this survey. The committee have greatly appreciated your feedback and it has informed our programme of events for 2023. Below is a quick summary of the results: 📆The 2023 event calendar will be published soon and is looking very exciting, especially with the British Championships coming here in May! 👀Watch this space – There will be lots of opportunities for you to get involved in the club not only as competitor but with training, coaching and in volunteering roles.

🏆🍂Autumn Trophy Results – Sorry, the results I published in the last post were bit out on a few categories. I should have referred to Alan’s spreadsheet of results which is available for us all to see on LVO’s OneDrive – see here. I didn’t take into account the points that officials deservedly get for being amazing and putting on the events for us to enjoy. I also didn’t rank the men and women and juniors separately – probably because I love the way we compete across different ages and genders in colour courses. Anyway, as a result, Meadow McCauley Read More …

👏Thank you to all those involved in the planning, organising and running of this years three Autumn Trophy events. 😊Three very different events at Tollymore, Slievenagore and Cairn Wood were enjoyed my many of us. To be competitive, participants must have completed in at least two of the three events with the best two results used. 🔵Short Blue: 1st Female Steph Pruzina, 2nd Female & 1st Junior Anastasia Mahlych, Joint 3rd Female Olivia Baxter & Sarah Gamble. 1st Male George Savell, 2nd Male Ivan Millar, 3rd Male Lyle Fleming 🟢Short Green: 1st Female Susan Lambe, 2nd Female Carol Black, 3rd Read More …

To help understand the needs of our members and direct our club offer, we intend to send out some short survey/questionnaires; and the first thing we want to look into is your preference of time and day for participating in weekend events. Below is a link to a short (less than 4 minute) questionnaire we would really appreciate your feedback on. Your individual views and opinions count! LVO WEEKEND EVENT SURVEY The prize for anyone who fills this in, is a hug from Juls (of course I haven’t sought permission for this but I’m sure she’ll be fine with that if Read More …

Last minute entry for this Sunday’s Urban League race in Craigavon – Deadline is 12.00! For all the info and link to entries click here!

🌒On the evening of the 3 November, you are invited to the first of seven Wednesday Evening Night Training activities. 🌓This week we the training will be at Ormeau Park. On alternate weeks we will meet in parks and in the weeks in between we will head to Lisburn and use three Night MapRun Score courses for training and a bit of fun competition. 🌔Everyone welcome, especially newcomers click here for more info.

Well done to all those who put on and participated in the events this past weekend. Slievenagore Autumn Trophy 2 – A beautiful day in south Down in contrast to most of the rest of the country on Saturday was very welcome to participants and volunteers alike. 👍Special thanks to Organiser Michael Murphy, Planner George Savell, Controller Greg McCann, MOO Tower Henry Montgomery, Susan Lambe and Geoffrey Collins with IT (and Mark Pruzina remotely!), Alan Gartside for printing and those who helped with starts and other bits and bobs. 🟡Yellow Winners: Odhran Counihan M12 and Aoibh Wilson W10 🟠Orange winners: Read More …

👏Well done and thank you to NorthWest Orienteering Club for hosting a fantastic NI Long Distance Championship at Carntogher yesterday. It was fantastic running on great courses in new terrain, with a new map. Super event overall enjoyed by us all! 🏆There was a good turnout form LVO with a number coming home as newly crowned NI Champions! M10, Aran Power, M12 Jack Wilkins, M14 James Ewart, M16 Peter Gamble, M50 Ivan Millar, M55 Lyle Fleming, M70 Wilbert Hollinger, W12 Orla Lynch, W20 Meadow McCauley, W21 Aine McCann, W40 Stephanie Pruzina, W45 Moire O’Sullivan, W50 Jane Wilson, W55 Aileen McCarron, Read More …

What a brilliant weekend of Orienteering! Saturday saw the Individual Races for the Junior Regional Championships and the NI Colour Series. Well done to all NI Junior team members battling against 168 of the best juniors from across the UK in some fantastic but challenging courses. A special mention to James Ewart who finished 9th in his first year as M14 and Anastasia who finished 10th in W16 – great runs! Later in the day the courses in Tyrella were opened up for a NI Colour Series event which entertained another 112 competitors including many visiting UK coaches, pitting their Read More …

🍀 Wishing the very best to the NI Junior squad who will be competing in the Junior Interregional Championships (JIRCS) this weekend. 👍The team coached by Steph Pruzina, all come from LVO this year – Sam Graham M14, Luke Gardiner M14, James Ewart M14, Peter Gamble M16, Oliver O’Kane M18, Ben Cairns M18, Dan Murphy M18, Zach Murphy M18, Anastasia Mahlych W16, Chloe Grattan W16. 🏖The individual race will be ran on Saturday morning, just before the NI Colour Series event, on the sand dunes of Ballykinler, Tyrella. The relay race will be in the same area on Sunday morning. Read More …