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🌞With the better weather threatening to come and the longer evenings ahead, there is no better time to get out and enjoy exploring the great outdoors. 😀From 1st May there is a reduced membership price for NEW members. So, if you are thinking about joining or know someone else who is, now is a great time. Senior membership is only £16 and there are equally good deals for Juniors, Young adults and families! 🏃‍♀️Membership will last up until the end of the year but there are so many orienteering events and activities planned for this month alone, including the WEE Read More …

If you ever wondered who the amazing people are behind our Club Meets, it’s this bunch of incredible coaches! They were busy yesterday planning more exciting orienteering outings over the coming months. Saturday 11 May – Meelmore Mountain Saturday 8 June – Drumkeeragh Forest Saturday 14 September – Portstewart Dunes in collaboration with NWOC Saturday 12 October – Sprint Training, Venue TBC Saturday 9 November – Tyrella Dunes Thank you for all your hard work 👏🏻

After a slight delay, the various performance tables have been updated with the Drum Manor results. The official NI Series tables can be downloaded from the NIOA website, but a copy can be viewed at “OneDrive Public>NI Series>NISeries20024.pdf”. The colour standards table can be viewed at “STANDINGS>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” As was warned after Drumkeeragh 4 events would drop out of the 12-month window before Drum Manor so quite a few folk have lost their current colour status. The hCOW tables can be viewed at “STANDINGS>hCOW>hCOW2024”. The Event2… table shows that only 2 out of the 38 results showed an event Read More …

Entries are open for our first WEE of the year, taking place in Ormeau Park on Wednesday 8 May – https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=13576 All ages and abilities welcome, with courses available to suit everyone. Legend has it that the only way to guarantee a long and pleasant summer is to attend the WEE series

❗Don’t miss out on the chance to receive great coaching on contoured mountain terrain. 🏃‍♀️ All ages and abilities welcome. 🙂 Catch up with club mates and meet new members, with the chance to socialise afterwards. 💻 For more information visit: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-meet-march-2024-meelmore/ Register before midnight on Tuesday 7 May HERE. Filling up fast – already nearly half the places available are booked, and last Club Meet was over-subscribed!

Whilst normal orienteers would be resting up after their Drum Manor outing yesterday, LVO’s intrepid fixtures team spent their Sunday planning our event locations for the next FIVE years! Planning this far out helps us to do a couple of things: 1) It means we can make sure our maps are updated in time, ready to go for the season when they’ll be used. 2) It gives our volunteers enough time to plan, organise and control the courses. 3) It allows us to see gaps in the terrain maps that we’d like to use, and look for access to new Read More …

We have a cracking TEN teams for IOC 2024. Hosted by our friends in WEGO, and based around Lough Ree, the relays follow 3 days of individual competition. A wonderful test for tired legs (and tired brains), we certainly are one of the largest clubs and one of the loudest on the run-in for ALL our teams 🙂

Huge congratulations to our very own Paul Pruzina who finished top 10 in the M21 Elite British Orienteering Long Distance Championships in Whitby, North Yorkshire last weekend. An incredible and well deserved result! Full results can be found here: https://www.theboc.org.uk/page/551

🤸‍♀️ Looking forward to having a mid-week adventure throughout May and June? Our ever popular weekly WEE (Wednesday Evening Event) series venues can now be revealed – keep your eyes peeled for entry information coming soon 🤓

At Saturday’s Hillsborough Club Meet, Ric, Áine and Alan passed their Level 2 BOF Coaching Qualification with flying colours 🥳 This would not have been possible without the generous support of the Orienteering Foundation, and the wisdom and patience of their instructor/mentor/problem-solver Helen Baxter. Thanks too to their assessors, Philip Baxter and Raymond Finlay from Fermanagh Orienteers.