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🌤A lovely late summer evening welcomed those who took part yesterday at Antrim. 🏃‍♀️Another good turn out, with new and returning newcomers, joining us for a fun evening exploring the park and the surrounding area. 🗺Lovely to plan and to run on the updated map (thanks Bill). Whilst mulling around having tea and buns, there were lots of compliments regarding the planning by Peter, another junior in the club who has got involved in this months Series. Unfortunately on the Long course, the leg planned to have the trickiest route choice (6-7) had a gate opened, so, for fairness, this Read More …

🌤Another dry evening welcomed those who took part last week at Lady Dixon. 🏃‍♀️It was great to see a good turn out, with lots of newcomers joining us for a fun evening of running/walking the park. 🗺Lovely to plan and run on the updated map (thanks Stephen). Anastasiia’s courses received lots of compliments afterwards, with the long legs in particular causing good discussion about route choice. The fact that she brought us straight into the rose gardens had our heads spinning from the start. This was the second of four events in the (handicapped) August WEE series – so lets Read More …

❓Do you want to progress your orienteering skills and get together with others for coaching and training? 📝The LVO coaching team are meeting next week to plan some club sessions to help us all move on and develop our skills. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦The sessions are open to all members and there will be different groups and activities for different abilities and ages. 👂Whether you are starting off on your O Journey or an experienced orienteer wanting to fine hone a few things – we want to hear from you – What are the things you would like coaching for? 🧠Here are a Read More …

The results for Lady Dixon are in, showing a welcome increase in turnout, including 11 recording their frst WEE result of the year. The result table “WEE6LadyDixon.pdf” show a very even spread, giving confidence in the formulae and assumptions being made. The regularity table “hCOW Table.pdf” shows, as suggested last week, that Olivia Baxter, once reaching 4 results, would go to the top of the list. Look farther down the list at those who have 3 results so far and its clear that things could get very close when they reach the 4 results required to count.. The improvement table Read More …

UU are conducting some research in regards to ‘Women’s Health’ and require support by completing a survey. The overall aim of the study is to understand how menstruation and menstrual pain affects participation in non-elite sports for young women. If you are a young female athlete (18-25) or a coach of young female athletes and happy to support in this research, please click on the appropriate link below. Young women This survey is for females, aged 18-25, have regular periods with a menstrual cycle ranging in length from 25 to 32 days in length, participate in sport at least once Read More …

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🌤At last a dry evening welcomed those who took part in the first WEE in the August Series. 🏃‍♀️It was great to see a good number turn up on the day to join those who pre-entered, making for some good competition. 🗺With a few tweaks made to an updated map (thanks Bill) there were a few new control sites to be found and route choices to me made on Sarah’s courses. 😵To confuse you, we even threw in a mystery control (with no description), totally on purpose of course 🤥 This was of course the first of four events in Read More …

TheUUJ results are in! A small turnout (presumably the Scottish6Days effect) means the statistics are a bit dodgy; in particular the event variance of +15secs for such a technically easy area (flat, open, with big buildings for guidance) is unexpected. Also unusual was the appearance of 7 first-timers; unfortunately for them UUJ sets their handicap which leaves only 3 events for scoring points and as it’s 4 to count it means they can’t win hCOW (points for regularity) and are unlikely to win Regatta (improvement) as they will have to carry a dns/dnf score into the final count. It’s reassuring Read More …

Tomorrow’s event at University of Ulster – Jordanstown, marks the beginning of the August WEE Series. A fresh start for us all – let’s see who set the pace and set an early lead on this months leader board. 🌞Forecast is dry, which is a nice change, so looking forward to a great evening. 📝On-line entry is closed but plenty of maps to register on the day. Just come along. 🏃‍♀️Jordanstown generally offers flat, fast running, but our planner Sarah Gamble has definitely chosen a few control sites which you won’t have visited before. 🧠Quick decision making along with keeping Read More …

🌞Our sizzling programme of Summer events is bound to raise the mercury levels and excite us all to get running outdoors 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ There is so much happening across the LVO catchment area over the next month or so to get involved with and invite others to. This is what’s coming up! 🔥1️⃣WEE Series – Wednesday Evening Events in August. Long and Short Courses to run walk, for all ages and abilities. Wed 2 Aug – WEE#5 UU Jordanstown Wed 9 Aug – WEE#6 Lady Dixon Park Wed 16 Aug – WEE#7 Antrim Castle Garden Wed 23 Aug – WEE#8 Barnett Read More …