Club member James Ewart is running at EYOC i Czechia on 18-20 July and you can follow the action on YouTube Live. The stream will bring you live footage from the forest and the arena, statistics, results, maps, live GPS tracking, and in-depth English commentary by David Procházka and Daniel Wolf. The stream is completely free. Subtract 1 hour from the times for BST. All the detail is here: https://eyoc2025.cz/stream/
There are no less than 14 O-pportunities to orienteer locally in July and August. From Benone to Bangor, from Gortin to Gosford and many more in between. Check out the fixtures list for all the details you need to know: https://www.niorienteering.org.uk/fixtures/
The WEE Series commences on Wednesday 7 May, but on Thursday 1 May be sure to enter the Urban Event at Ballymena. The event is part of the Irish 5 Day including the Irish Orienteering Championships. All the details are here with full details of the weekend a the IOC website. Early bird entries on SI Entries close on 31 March so be sure to get your entry in. Sometimes on
Thanks to all club members who have been out checking our forested maps. We have 40 maps with at least some woodland and of this 18 have now been checked. Some areas are still at least partly closed to the public so it has not yet been possible for club members to access these areas. You can see the update here. The good news is that although we do have damaged areas, in quite a few cases the damage is not quite as bad as at first thought. However we still have the following10 areas that need someone to check: Read More …
A week after Storm Éowyn it is apparent that some of our forested areas have been hit hard, but others have been pretty much unscathed. As a club we need an audit to work out how this will affect our fixture list, so we need “boots on the ground” to check over all our mapped woodlands. This is quite an extensive task so it’s necessary to mobilise the club. No special skills are required, other than basic experience of orienteering! So what is involved? Listed here are the various maps that need to be checked, so please look at the Read More …
Stranmillis University College was used for the first World Ranking Sprint Race in the UK and Ireland as part of JK 2011 and has been rarely used since. You have an opportunity to test your wits in this complex sprint area next Wednesday 22 November. As the final part of the college’s centenary year, this will be a “Scatter”, using SportIdent with Air+ enabled, with the added challenge of finding the quickest route to score 100 points. We have challenged the students to see if they can beat the orienteers, with of course an extra handicap for the orienteers. All Read More …
Entries are now open for NI Colour Series 7 at Whitespots Country Park, Newtownards. All the detail is on the event page. Entries are on SiEntries. Don’t miss the final colour event of 2023 with 8 courses on offer for all abilities and experience on a brand new map on on an area that hasn’t been used this century!
On Friday 5 May, last Saturday’s excellent Spring Cup courses will be available again as a middle distance training activity just before the British Sprint and Middle Distance weekend. This is primarly aimed at our visiting competitors in the late afternoon/early evening, but if you missed out last Saturday then please do enter. All the details are available via the Emerald Isle page at http://www.niorienteering.org.uk/emerald2023/ Alternatively, if you would just like to run your course again and see if you can run those tricky legs error free, then just turn up with your map from last Saturday and run free Read More …
We are off again to Lisburn for WENT this week, meeting again at the Ground cafe at 7.15pm on Wed 7 Dec. This will be for a differnet MapRun using a differnet part of the city of Lisburn. All the details, including the course that you should upload to the MapRun6 or MapRunG are on the page for this activity on the LVO website. The weather is looking cool but dry, so come on down and stay after for a hot chocolate and a particularly good traybake. Sufficent maps are printed!
WENT on Wednesday 23 November goes back to Ground in Lisburn. Enjoy a 45 minute urban score using MapRun6 or MapRunG on a different part of the city than last time. All the details are in the event page on the LVO website. Sufficient maps are printed and the forecast looks reasonable. Do come along!