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Make sure you make it along to the NI Colour Series Events this year. These are great events that will really help your orienteering to improve and you will get a lot from going along. Don’t be put off by the travel or the new areas. That is some of the advantages of our sport. If you want to attend an event and have problems getting there just let me know. Lastly NI Colour Series events are a big part of the Junior Incentive Scheme. You can get colour awards for attending these types of events. NI Colour Series – Read More …

Get the Dates in the Diary – click to see the dates The WEE series 2013 will soon be upon us. Lots of great racing every Wednesday evening in the glorious summer we will all be having this year. Make sure you get the dates in the diary now.

There is a national survey of young people in orienteering taking place. The survey is for young people aged 14 – 25 and will help British orienteering to understand and improve how young people are involved with our sport. Please complete the survey and help our sport be improved for your benefit.

Sophie explains how she tackled a tricky section when racing around the leisure centre area at Antrim. All those fences were a real problem!! Control leg 19 – 20 took in fences and a river!! Route choice would be key. Click the image to see the detail. “I was quite pleased with my course overall, but I had a bit of trouble going from control 19 to control 20 because there were so many closed gates and fences so close together. You have to pause and look closely at the map to work out that you can’t get through what Read More …

Antrim Castle Gardens Many Juniors turned up on Sat 6 Apr to race at Antrim Castle Gardens. This was a mix of parkland and urban as we raced round the castle grounds and the buildings of the forum leisure centre. You had to watch the control descriptions as it was easy to be on the wrong side of an uncrossable fence!! Check out the photos below of a few of the juniors in action. Sophie heads in the right direction Luke looking confident Paul pushing hard – he won in the end beating all the adults!! Andrew handrails the fence

The next junior training event is at Tyrella South on the 13 Apr. This is an event at which we can put all our learning so far into practice. Go to the training page here for more details.

Team P get ready to run Well dome to all those who took part in the JK 2013 in the Chilterns. It was a great event and the cold weather was at least dry!! Day 1 at Reading University Day 1 was a sprint race round the grounds of Reading University. It was a quick course with lots of route choice and the potential to end up the wrong side of a fence or wall. Day 2 Hambelden Forest and Hills Day 2 was just North of Henley on Thames in a wooded ridge line called Hambleden. Lots of running Read More …

As you may already know, the JK was in the Chilterns over the last weekend. This competition is great as your first big competition to enter, and I have been going for the past three years, and really enjoyed it. The website for next year’s event is: www.thejk.org.uk/jk2014 and I would encourage as many people to think about going as possible, especially as I didn’t see very many LVO juniors there this year.Anybody who did go, it would be great to hear about your experiences of the event – send them to lvojuno@gmail.com or post them in a commentPaul Pruzina Read More …

Good luck to all those taking part in this year’s JK in the Chilterns. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. Hopefully the snow will stay away!! A special mention goes to the club juniors making the trip. They are Andrew E, Paul P and Sophie P. Keep an eye on the blog and on the Instagram account for updates from the JK. You can also follow us via twitter (@GBROrienteering, #LVO).

As the event at Tyrella South on the 23 Mar is postponed the junior training will not take place. The event will hopefully run on the 13 Apr instead.