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*** Online entry setup for NI Sprint Champs at Tollymore now fixed, so you should only see the age classes. Anybody who entered the Main or Junior courses should now have an entry in the appropriate age class. *** Please don’t use the Main and Junior courses for the Tollymore Sprint – use the Age classes. This was a mistake in the event setup.

A little late, but better late than never… And so to June and a different venture in the world of WEE. For the entire month we are going to be re-structuring the Series. The familiar two runs will still be there, but as we switch focus towards encouraging newcomers to take up the sport we are removing results from each event and consequently there will be NO league for this month. You will still receive your splits and results will appear on the night but nothing will be published! Instead we are going to be offering some coaching for those Read More …

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Our sport is all about fair play and sadly I heard of several people disregarding the rules on impassable features recently at the Craigavon WEE. I hope that this is due to some novices / newcomers not really understanding the rules rather than regulars flagrantly disobeying them, but either way it would seem that a little more education is needed. Urban / sprint orienteering is different from normal orienteering in that it takes place in an area where property boundaries fenced / or unfenced and public or private flower beds need to be respected by competitors. They are OUT OF BOUNDS!! These areas are Read More …

I received a good question about the junior courses for Drumgor and their age suitability: Both runs take place in a large housing estate that is covered by a comprehensive network of footpaths, alleyways, and cycle paths. Whilst I can’t guarantee that the courses will be traffic free, the only roads to be crossed are minor estate roads that are usually very quiet, and the courses have been purposefully planned to make use of the path network so that the majority of crossings, if any, take place at cul-de-sacs or parking areas as shown on the image. Both the morning and afternoon runs do Read More …

And so to Drumgor… For all those thinking of coming there are a couple of notes to read in advance with regard to the map: Due to the nature of the estate, with its comprehensive path network and large number of housing blocks, purely in the interests of clarity we have made some decisions which mean that the map no longer fully complies with the ISSOM standard. We follow the letter of the law but have applied the rules obliquely: Impassable Features: The definition of an impassable wall / fence symbol does not necessarily mean that the feature is actually Read More …