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(I’m posting this fine suggestion from Ric, who says:) Hi LVOers. For all those going to the IOC next weekend I’m hoping we can maybe organise getting together socially. On the Saturday evening there is going to be a table quiz, raising some money for juniors and charity, so it would be good to have a few LVO teams. I’m also happy to organise a meal on the Sunday evening. With the guts of racing over it would be nice to get together for some good food and liquid refreshment as we talk tactics with our relay team mates and strategies Read More …

The May Wednesday Evening Event (WEE) Series starts next Wednesday at Ormeau Park. Starts are 6:45-7:30pm. Meet at the OZone car park off the Ormeau Embankment, Belfast BT6 8LT. Online entry is available at https://www.fabian4.co.uk/step1/ContactDetails.aspx?EventID=2059 Entry fee £7 adult, £5 adult member, £4 Junior non-member, £3 Junior / Student / Unwaged, free Adults going with a Junior. You will have the option to enter all 5 May WEE events online for the price of 4. Online entry closes midnight Sunday, but is not essential – just turn up on the night.

Superb open mountain training on Meelmore this Sunday 29th April.  Lots of coaches on hand, have a go at a couple of exercises and then practise it all on a course.  It’s all in conjunction with our hub Tollymore Orienteers.  Fun & informal – really high quality standard of training, right from yellow course all the way up to TD5. Ready to go at 2pm from Meelmore Lodge, we’ll be back there by 4pm ready for tea & buns. Perfect to take your O to the next level – or fine tune ready for the Irish Champs! All the info Read More …

**Beware The Fixtures List**  It’s still acting up 🙁  However the mechanics are on the case.  There’s a useful post on the NI Orienteering website though, so you don’t miss an orienteering trick.  Link is here  

Last year’s Roll of Honour can be found at “Further Info>LVO Public Folders>Roll of Honour”.  Sorry about the delay in getting it published but last year’s injury-induced absence left me with a lot of catching up to do.  If I’ve got any of it wrong or left anything out please let me know, and don’t be shy about your own involvement – this is the only historical record of the club’s achievements and it would be a shame to leave it incomplete.

Following the first 5 colour events of the year (3SC+2NI) the colour standards table has been brought up-to-date.  It can be found at “Further Info>LVO Public Folders>Colour Standards”.  The double-headed arrows show the 12-month window of events which count, the capitalised letters show the events (there must be 3) counting towards your current standard, the right-hand column shows the best colour achieved this year (i.e. you must have reached a colour standard in an event this year) and, in brackets, the best colour you’ve ever achieved since records began in 1990.  The entries which are highlighted in yellow show folk Read More …

Just used CONDES to calculate the shortest available route for last Saturday’s long course i.e. avoiding out-of-bounds and uncrossable line features.  The cited straight line length of 3.7km becomes 4.6km and with the addition of the 30m of climb my speed improves from 16m16s/km to 12m18s/km.  Happy days!

The final Spring Cup 2018 tables are now available. Go “Further Info>Documents>Public documents>Club Colour Series”, right-click on the filename and select “Open in Word Online” or “Open in Browser”.  The points are place points and to be eligible you had to be 1. a member of the club and 2. have returned a result in 2 out of the 3 events.  The aggregate of your 2 lowest event placings is your score.

Results are now available on Routegadget – see http://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/ Now on Winsplits too!   http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=54563 In Routegadget you will have to pick ‘Ballymena Sprint’ or ‘Ballymena Sprint Short’ depending on which results you want to see. This is because a different map was used.

You can pay your Ballymena Urban Sprint entry fee by contactless card.This is a trial run to see if contactless payment might speed up the entry process at the busy WEE events. So please pay by card or, better still, Apple Pay or Android/Google Pay on your phone. Of course you can still pay with proper cash if you wish!