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Plans are in hand for this year’s Wednesday Evening Night Training Series. The provisional programme is: 2 Nov   Ormeau Park 9 Nov   Musgrave Park 16 Nov Barnett Demesne 23 Nov Belmont Park 30 Nov Lady Dixon Park 7 Dec Wallace Park, Lisburn 14 Dec Grand Finale – to be confirmed We aim to have a mass start at 1930, with a 45 minute time limit. There will be something for all abilities although under 16s should be accompanied by an adult. More details will appear as we get closer to the start – in the meantime I would be very Read More …

The colour standards have been updated with the results from NISeries4 at Downhill Forest.  They can be found in the LVO cloud at “Contact Us/Documents/Public Documents/Colour Standards”.

The 2016 NI Series tables have been updated and the 2016 Colours of Autumn tables created following the event at Downhill last Saturday.  They can be found via “results” on the NIOrienteering web site or in the LVO cloud via “contact us>documents>public documents>NI Series”.

Apologies for the delay in posting results for today’s event. I’m struggling with accessing Autodownload whilst I apply penalties to the 11 competitors who were noted as transgressing an impassable feature (with the whole or part of the body) in the vicinity of control 142. Whilst technically such an incursion should mean disqualification, instead a 3 minute penalty will be applied. And this was despite Susan’s helpful coaching on Facebook last week. Believe it or not our sport does have rules so here’s useful bedtime reading for some of our well established members! Meanwhile thanks to Conor McKernon, Routegadet is now Read More …

Registration is in the overflow carpark at Lagan Valley Leisureplex, from 11.30 to 12.30 (NOT Lagan Valley Island where the 2015 Lisburn City Race was based.) The overflow carpark is approx 50m SW from the Leisureplex front door. Course details are: Long Course 6.1km, 60m climb – optimal route 8.9km Medium Course 4.1km, 40m climb – optimal route 6.4km Short Course 1.6km, 15m climb – optimal route 1.9km. Surfaces are approx 90% paved, 10% grass. Competitors are reminded that the Highway Code must be obeyed at all times. Conditions are forecast to be wet, so please take extreme care particularly in Read More …

The Colour Standards listing has been updated following AT1 at Hillsborough.  It can found at “Contact Us>Documents>Public Documents>Colour Standards”.

Please find below links to the results from the NIOC and VHI. Once I work out how to present them in a more ‘fancy’ way I will … but not tonight, I need to dry out first! NIOC 2016 Results VHI Results RouteGadget is available to for those who wish to share their ramblings. Yellow to Green Blue to Black I personally am interested in seeing someone route from 12 to 13 on the Brown! Look forward to the VHI relays and LVO Autumn Trophy 1 at Hillsborough tomorrow. Jeff      

Clothing for the following are ready for collection; they will be at Rostrevor on Saturday and Hillsborough on Sunday. Cash or cheque to LVO, please! Quique A – Jacket Aileen McC – Jacket and top Jo G – Top I also have 4 sleeveless (gilet) versions of the jacket at a special reduced price of £35. Sizes Women Small, Medium (2) and XL. First come, first served! Philip