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Get ready to jingle and mingle at the LVO Ho Ho Christmas Social, a festive gathering filled with holiday cheer! 🎉 Join us for a jolly good time at the LVO Ho Ho Christmas Social! It’s going to be a festive extravaganza filled with laughter, good food along with a healthy dollop of festive club cheer. We’re returning to the Tollymore National Outdoor Centre near Newcastle, for another unforgettable evenings craic! 🍴 The two course dinner will start at 7.30pm – Please Bring Your Own drinks.🍾🥂 🏃‍♀️ For those who want to get the party started earlier, Steph is planning Read More …

👋Thank you and well done to everyone who participated and helped put on the final Colour Series event of the year. 9️⃣9️⃣ Competitors took part over the 8 courses provided. 🧠Right form the start the labyrinth of paths got the brain working, and the head scratching didn’t let up. This seemingly random network took us through all sorts of terrain and vegetation, ranging from exposed rock to think forest. Well done Mark Stephens for mapping this and planning the courses for the event. 👍Big thank you also to Organiser Ann Savage, Controller Stephen Gilmore and their volunteer helpers on the Read More …

LVO are providing some great opportunities to improve your navigational skills both during the day and night. Some night coaching and training has already taken place but there is still so much planned before the end of the year. Here is what is coming up which you can still sign up for: 🌲Club Meet – Woodburn Sat 18 Nov Meet-up time will be 10.30am for an 11am start, with coaching taking place until 12.30pm. There will be specific coaching sessions for all abilities and ages. This is not just for experienced orienteers – juniors and newcomers will have tailored activities Read More …

More info and online entry found here: NI Colour Series 7 – Whitespots Country Park, Newtownards – Lagan Valley Orienteers (lvo.org.uk)

Don’t miss out on these great orienteering activities: 1️⃣ LVO Club Meet – Woodburn Carrickfergus. Club coaching and social on Saturday 18 November – deadline for entry is tomorrow (Tue 7 Nov) at midnight. This new coaching opportunity will be a fantastic way for us to develop our skills in a fun social way. Maps £2 for TD3/4/5, Free for TD1/2. REGISTER HERE and for more info visit Club Meet – Woodburn – Lagan Valley Orienteers (lvo.org.uk) 2️⃣ WENT 2 – Eastside Belfast. Urban night training this Wednesday evening – deadline is tomorrow (Tue 7 Nov) at 7.30pm. Free maps Read More …

Make the most of your membership and join up now for another exciting year of orienteering with Lagan Valley Orienteers! 💻Join online HERE for 2024 ❗ Please note the following good news about membership: Full Year (2024) BOF NIOA Clubs TOTAL Junior (up to 20 years) £5 £2.50 £2.50 £10 Young Adult (up to 25) £10 £5 £5 £20 Senior £15 £5 £5 £25 Family (2 Seniors + 1 or more Juniors) £35 £7.50 £7.50 £50 Overall fees for 2024 will remain at the 2023 price for individual members and family membership will be reduced by £10 New members from Read More …

🙁Sorry, due to the recent rainfall conditions are very poor at Ormeau, so we are having to cancel training this evening. We hope things will dry off and we can be back in Ormeau on the 15th November, replacing the session at Musgrave. 😃In the mean time there are plenty of other things to get excited about and signed up for: NI Colour Series 7 Whitespots Country Park, Newtownards. Entries are now open for the final Colour Series event of the year. This promises to be a great event – it will be exciting to explore a new venue on Read More …

Entries are now open for NI Colour Series 7 at Whitespots Country Park, Newtownards. All the detail is on the event page. Entries are on SiEntries. Don’t miss the final colour event of 2023 with 8 courses on offer for all abilities and experience on a brand new map on on an area that hasn’t been used this century!

The NISeries tables are published on the NIOA website; you can find a copy on the club site by clicking on “Resources”, “OneDrive Public”, “NISeries”, “NISeries2023.pdf”. A number of classes are already decided (it’s 4 results to count from 7); the brown women class is going down to the wire with Áine McCann and Moiré O’Sullivan sharing wins (thought for the day – does having an accented vowel in your name improve your orienteering? I think I’ll register as Álán to see if I can improve on my dismal return to colour-level events). The colour standards table can be found Read More …

👍Club Meets are a new LVO initiative brought about from the request by members to have opportunities for training and coaching to help improve our skills in a social way. We will all meet, start and finish at the same location but the training will take place in smaller groups. Groups will be organised into people with the same level of technical ability and will each have a dedicated coach (and possibly a coaching assistant depending on size of group). Coaching will be organised into three groups – Technical Difficulty (TD)1/2 (White-Yellow), TD3 (Orange) and TD4/5 (Light Green and above). Read More …