Author: Richard Gamble

👀 Check out Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council’s piece on the opening of the new Permanent Orienteering Courses on the updated map: Royal Hillsborough welcomes Scandinavian orienteers for outdoor adventure! (lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk) 🎥 LCCC also posted this short video on Facebook 🟡🟠🟢 There are three different courses to choose from of varying lengths and degree of challenge. 🏃‍♀️🌲🚶‍♂️ If you haven’t yet had the chance to explore Hillsborough Forest yourself, you can get more info and download a map here: Hillsborough Forest – Go Orienteering

👏 Thanks to all three NI clubs there continues to be many more O-events to enjoy this May/June. 👍 At the weekend Fermo welcomed and entertained us with fun, interesting and challenging NI Sprint and Middle Distance Championship courses. Well done to all LVOers wo made the trip west and especially to the following for their podium (NI positions) making runs. NI Sprint Champs: 🥇🥈🥉 W Open Aine McCann and Olivia Baxter. W40+ Moire O’Sullivan and Sarah Gamble. W55+ Stephanie Pruzina and Heather Cairns. W65+ Helen Baxter, Ann Savage and Barbara Foley-Fisher. W16 Anastasia Mahlych MOpen Chris Colwell, George Savell Read More …

😬 Grit your teeth, with only one week to go in the May league, we are in for a tight finish. Only 4 points separate the top three position in both the Long and Short courses. Last month I made a few errors with my sums, so should all be fixed now. The high scores means I need more beads for my abacus. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Long Course: Well done to the 21 people who have participated at all three venues this month, fantastic effort! There has been some movement at the top. Presently in the top six positions are, Anastasia Mahlych 60 Read More …

Yesterday, a 70 strong touring group from Scandinavia, travelled up to Hillsborough, ‘fresh’ from 4 days competition at the IOC’s in Kerry. They had a great run around, testing out the newly updated map of the forest Stephen Gilmore has worked on and his long course. It was great to see so many smiling faces and nothing but compliments for the terrain, map and course, so we are in for a treat this evening. The fastest O-tourist (who I think was a Swede) did it in about 27 minutes – so there’s a time to beat! Although the WEEs are Read More …

Hi, trust you are all well. This is a reminder that the LVO AGM is being held online this coming Wednesday, 27th April at 7.30pm. Below is the copy of the Agenda. There are attachments to last years minutes for approval/adoption and the Chairperson report. Harry will present the Treasurers report on the evening but hopes to send a copy of this out to members beforehand. It would be great to see you there. It is a chance for us to reflect upon and celebrate all that has gone on this past year and have a say in the direction Read More …

O coaching for novice-but-want-to-learn-more adults (age 18+) Sunday 24th April 9-5pm, Meelmore £10 each, includes parking + all maps.  BYO map bag. Coaches  – Susan Lambe and Steph Pruzina Have you been orienteering for a little while?  But still (whisper it) a bit unsure how to get the best out of your compass?  Bit baffled by the wiggly brown contour lines?  Basically, is your control-finding a bit of a treasure hunt for orange & white flags?   A bit “sure it’s over there somewhere, I’ll figure it out when I get there”. You’re maybe quite good at Orange courses, but Read More …

👏Well done and thank you to North West Orienteering Club for putting on a great Colour Series event yesterday at Drum Manor. there was an encouraging turn out with 55 of the 97 participants from LVO. I am sure you all enjoyed your run, well worth the trip! ⛰The next event is our third and final Spring Cup, at Divis Mountain this coming Saturday (9 April). Entries close on Thursday evening. Click here for more info. Be sure to book on as this will be the last club orienteering event in NI for 4 weeks, before the much awaited WEE Read More …

🎉Congratulations to Steph Pruzina, Mark Pruzina and Stephen Gilmore who have all been nominated for a British Orienteering Annual Award. 👏Mark has been nominated for the Development and Innovation award – this award is new this year and celebrates the efforts an individual, group or club has put into delivering a new programme or initiative which supports the growth of orienteering. Some of you may not know the work Mark and others do in the background with regard to setting up the on-line entries and payment systems which allows for the smooth running of events. He has also invented a clever radio control Read More …

Are you looking for some nice new O kit? Those of you who were about at Woodburn on Saturday will have noticed a clothes line which had various tops for you to try on for size along with details of kit and an order (expression of interest) form . There was good interest, so it looks like we will be putting our first order in soon. We plan to hang out the clothes, details and order form again, this Saturday at Meelmore and again at Gosford the following week, so have a good look at what you would like. The Read More …

Hi LVO friends I can’t believe it has been a year since I was ‘trusted’ to hold the reins as LVO Chair. As always it has been a busy 12 months within the club. There are many moments to celebrate but I am especially proud of the speed and the positive way we have managed to bounce back after all the Covid restrictions. This success is down to your support – thank you for participating in and volunteering your services, helping put on a great club programme. Special thanks to all the event officials and the club committee for their Read More …