Author: Susan Lambe

The JK is one of the biggest UK orienteering competitions, always held over the Easter weekend. 4 days of fun. This year it’s in South Wales and there’s a merry wee band heading over from LVO. Relays are on the Monday and we have 4 club teams entered, plus 2 orienteers perched on the reserve bench. On top of that, we have orienteers on Irish Junior Squad teams, and even more running on other club teams. Lots of cheering-on required!! Good luck to everyone running over the weekend 🙂 https://www.thejk.org.uk/

It’s fast approaching the JK in Wales over the Easter weekend, followed by the Irish Orienteering Championships in the Killarney area over the May bank holiday weekend. Hopefully today’s sunshine is a sign of things to come. Susan Lambe & Olivia Baxter are once again co-ordinating club relay team entries. Once again we’re disorganised!! But it’ll all come together, be graaaaannd. The relays are on the Monday of each event, always a fun way for the clubs to finish the weekend. The legs may be tired but the craic is always excellent. Except possibly if there’s snow or horizontal rain………. Read More …

So it was my pleasure to team up with Richard Williamson (Controller) and Stephen Knight (Organiser) to plan Saturday’s courses on Meelmore. Do you know, I really enjoyed myself. It’s a cracking orienteering area. We decided early on to use a small area – turns out this was a good call, as the Trassey River was fair bouncing along on the day, so at least no-one had an early bath. Well, okay, some of you might have – I hear some marshes were verging on the enthusiastic. I can see lots of you have put your adventures onto Routegadget already, Read More …

Susan, Richard & Stephen are looking forward to welcoming you all to their open-mountain event this Saturday. We are parking at Meelmore Lodge which means toilets and showers and coffee and top-notch buns. Oh and some awesome orienteering too. Pre register online, link & info here: Spring Cup 2 – Meelmore

Look at you all! Fabulous!! Now it’s over to you. Everyone needs to put in their own entry by midnight tonight!!! Here’s the entry link (hope it works) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrD0bLbO4cwsGNfsBFhdzQK5-H6tHN2EmNhozHqsaPeVoqMQ/viewform?pli=1 And then you can decide on your route for Saturday or Sunday. It needs to be 2km and you must finish where you start (no 2km downhill gallops allowed!) Have a think about how you can track it – GPS watch or a phone app would do nicely. Remember to upload it afterwards!! Have fun everyone. Club or hub shirts if you have them. Lots of photos would be ace, post Read More …

Yes the Irish Championships virtual relay is back for a second year. All the info on the IOA website. IOC 2021 Virtual Relay…the return! Tell us you’re interested by this evening please – email susan.lambe4@gmail.com – we’ll find you a team, and send you the entry form. If you ran last year, you should already have an entry form. Please don’t submit it yet till we have the teams arranged. It’s 2km, complete it on Saturday or Sunday, wherever you like – you must start & finish in the same place. Most importantly share photos of your adventures on our Read More …

We are going all nostalgic and taking a look back at JK 2011. Yes that is ten years ago….. The largest event ever hosted here, the Jan Kjellstrom International Festival of Orienteering saw over 2,000 orienteers travel to NI for 4 days of the best we have to offer. A huge volunteer effort was led by our very own Harold White as Event Coordinator, along with a sizeable army of officials and helpers. Lots of memories and photos appearing daily over on the NI Orienteering website. Go have a look 🙂 https://www.niorienteering.org.uk/jk-memories-day-1-sprint/

Wowww you have surpassed yourselves! We have 75 participants in this Sunday’s Virtual Orienteering Relay. Outstanding! You’ve all been assigned a team. Say hi to your new virtual team mates 🙂 Now it’s over to you. Everyone needs to put in their own entry by midnight on Friday!!! Here’s the link to all the information https://www.orienteering.ie/just-for-fun-ioc-virtual-relay including the entry link. And then you can decide on your route for Sunday morning. It needs to be 2km and you must finish where you start (no 2km downhill gallops allowed!) Have a think about how you can track it – GPS watch Read More …

#VirtualOrienteeringRelay this Sunday 10th May 🙌🙌 Who all’s in? It’s all about a bit of fun 😊 On Sunday morning, you run, jog or walk 2k. No maps or navigating required! You must finish where you start. We’ll assign you a team (3 of you per team), all your times are added up and you’ll win…….erm……..bragging rights????? This is organised by the Irish Orienteering Association because we didnt get a chance to run the Irish Champs relays this year ☹️ We’re a big club so we can get a fantastic turnout 🙂🙂🙂 We have 27 participants = 9 teams already and I know we will get wayyyyy more. Email Read More …

Hi everyone, Olivia and I are pulling together the IOC relay teams. This is not easy with very complicated sums to be done for the Handicap classes. The good thing is, there are no Team Trials and you can take it as seriously, or not, as you wish. If you’d like a run, please let me (Susan) or Olivia know. Email or pm the Facebook page or post in the group or text or comment here. Go for it 🙂