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After last week’s run round the enchanted wonderland of Antrim Castle Gardens, the 2017 WENT series comes to an end this Wednesday in Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park. We will be playing SnookerO for the last time but with a few seasonal additions. Meet in the top car park as usual at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm mass start, with a 45 minute time limit. Club members £2, visitors £4. As has become tradition, there will be a few festive treats at the end of the session so plan on staying a while and enjoying hot chocolate and little eats. There will Read More …

The Colour Standard listings, found in the LVO Cloud at “Contact Us>Documents>Public documents>Colour Standards”, have been updated with the end of year positions.  The Colour Standards list shows your colour achievement over the last 2 years, then your current colour standard then, on the right-hand side, your best colour achieved this year and, finally in brackets, your best colour ever achieved.  Your best colour is carried across into the Colour History list.  Make this information the basis of your O-resolutions for 2018!  For next year Long Orange is being phased out and a Short Green course introduced on NI Ladder Read More …

The final NISeries and Colours of Autumn tables are now available on the NIOrienteering website at “Results>NI Colour Series Leagues” or in the LVO Cloud in the NISeries folder.  Congratulations to all the winners, highlighted in red (except Ben Cairns – I’ve just realised that his name is not highlighted! Correction on its way).  There are some classes without a winner; that’s because no-one gained sufficient results (4 for the NISeries, 2 for the Colours of Autumn).

A good and mixed crowd enjoyed last week’s WENT in Ormeau Park – thanks to Helen for setting out the controls in my absence. This week we have the privilege of using Antrim Castle Gardens at night. The area is terrific for night orienteering, with a nice mix of parkland, tracks and wooded areas. It is well worth making the effort to get out to Antrim for the evening (it isn’t that far and you won’t need a passport); we’ll meet in the Clotworthy House car park (not the Antrim Forum one) at 7.00pm for the usual mass start at Read More …

For anyone free this Wednesday afternoon there will be a small training event being run in Barnets (Malone House car park). Registration from 1230 and starts from 1300-1400. Courses will be Lt Green and Orange.  Cost £3.50. If anyone would like a run please let me know lennny_68@hotmail.com The training events being run in the new year are provisionally: 14 Feb 28 Feb 07 Mar 28 Mar locations TBC. Thanks Andrew

 Our penultimate Craigavon Orienteers’ event for 2017. Come and join us for a wee jaunt around the Lake on Sunday afternoon. Courses on offer will be Yellow, Orange, Light Green, and Green. Cost as always will be £2.50 per map, but because Santa is without his little helper this week, if anyone wants to offer to help collect controls in I’ll give you a 20% discount on the entry fee. As usual, if you fancy coming along please let me know in advance as to which course you wish to do and how many of you there are. You can either Read More …

The final positions in the Autumn Trophy are now available in the “Club Colour Series” folder in the LVO Cloud.  Follow “Contact us>Documents>Public documents”.  The competition is based on place points, with your best (i.e. lowest) two scores to count.  To be considered one has to have recorded 2 finishes in a class – shown by an asterisk against your entry.

Exciting times – we’ve got some Facebook changes today.  Our Group remains, with a name change to LVO Club Discussion Group.  Our Page also remains – Lagan Valley Orienteers – it’s a great public face for the club in the world of Facebook. It’ll shortly be cheerio to the WEE Series Orienteering page (but not the WEE Series itself, very importantly it’s still here!!). Make sure you like our Lagan Valley Orienteers page to keep up to date 🙂  It’s pretty new so not everyone is on there yet.  We’d love your feedback – I’ll be at the Ormeau WENT tomorrow, send a pm to the team, or give Read More …

Congratulations and commiserations to the intrepid 2 dozen who braved the weather last week in Lady Dixon Park. I hope we will be more fortunate this week as we return to Ormeau Park to continue with the SnookerO theme. The controls will not be in the same places as for WENT 1 and the challenge to get round them all may be a bit stiffer than usual. Meet in the main carpark at 7.00pm for a 7.30 mass start. £2 for members, £4 for guests – all are most welcome.