Irish Junior Squad Time Trial

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Attention junior athletes (M/W14+)! I have information from Mike Long (IOA Director of Junior Representative Orienteering) that the first mandatory selection event for the Irish Junior Team is a time trial in Phoenix Park on Saturday 11th March 2017. You can register your participation here (you do not need to be an existing Irish Squad member). You may get a flavour of the JHI selection criteria from those used in 2014 which are here. The  IOA selection criteria for EYOC and JWOC 2017 are here. JROS camp 2017 selection criteria are here. Geoffrey C.

Junior training Saturday 29th October Donard Forest

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Junior training is planned for Saturday 29th October in Donard Forest. Meet at 10:00am in Donard Forest main car park. O training will cover relocation and distance estimation in and around the control circle. Further training will subsequently be planned (during the Christmas school holidays) building on this bite-size session – date to be agreed amongst interested Juniors. If you are planning to come along on 29th October, please reply to: lvojuno@gmail.com. Alison Collins – LVO.

Junior Home International Competition

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A number of our juniors (Rachel C, Andrew E, Sophie P and Peter R) took part in the Irish Squad at the Junior Home International Competition held in Northumberland. Steph P, who along with Geoffrey C helped to lead the team, has produced a great post about their exploits that can be read at the Irish Orienteering website.

Sprint Training – Tollymore

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On a beautiful Sun afternoon in late May a number of our juniors, and some not so junior, took part in sprint training at Tollymore. There were 3 x 2 km loops to be done with the pressure of having to move at top speed and take as straight a line as possible, not to mention not being allowed to stop running at any point, even if you needed to study the map. All useful skills for sprint racing.

Junior Training: Woodburn 2 Apr 16

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There will be junior compass and pacing training available at the Woodburn event on Sat 2 Apr. The course will be set out in the wood to the left of the main path that enters the forest just by the car park – all nice and close. You will be given a map with only the control circles, scale and grid lines on it. You then have to take an accurate bearings and pace the distance to get to the control kite (which will be on the ground out of sight). The course will open at about 1130 and run for 45 minutes or so. Read More …

Junior Fundraising

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The NIOA Juniors are fundraising by selling tea/coffee/soup and buns at Silent Valley on Saturday. Can that parents of juniors please bring some buns/cakes for this event.

LVO’s 2015 Champions!

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Full list of Winners to be added later  

Compass and Pacing Challenge

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On Saturday before the score race at Crawfordsburn there will be the chance to warm up  by taking part in some compass and pacing practice. This will involve maps with only the control circles and connecting lines left on them. All other detail will have been removed. The challenge will be to stay on the right bearing and pace out the correct distance to find a small kite that will not be very visible from a distance. There could be the odd obstacle in the way to spice it up. Although this training is for our juniors it is open to anyone. Read More …

Armagh 5 Km Road Race

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Two of our juniors, Rachel and Andrew, took on the Armagh city race on a cold Thur evening on the 18 Feb 16. It was a busy night with athletes from all over the country and indeed world taking part. Both our our athletes took on a hard and fast 3 km race around the Mall in Armagh city centre. With lots of people there to cheer them on and plenty of atmosphere there were some unbelievable times from the winners. Not to be outdone our own stars performed extremely well, despite being amongst the youngest to take part, with both Read More …

Junior Training 2016 ( A Call to Coaches)

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The Junior Training Programme for 2016 has been set. Make sure to get the dates in your diaries. Please note that due to personal circumstances I am unable to commit as much time as before to junior training this year. Therefore these events are subject to the volunteering of just some of the many coaches we have in the club to help put them on. If you are a coach let me know when you can help please. Without volunteers then the programme can’t take place. 13/14 Feb – Dublin/Wicklows Irish Junior Squad 12/13 Mar – Limerick Irish Junior Squad 27 Feb – Read More …