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After a string of great technical, but physically demanding events you may be looking for something a little easier on the body. Well, you’re in luck! The Urban League returns again next Sunday with a wee dander around the paths of Craigavon South. No big hills to climb, or rocks to cross, no peat cuttings or marshes, but you’ll still need to concentrate on your map reading to figure out the optimum routes. Entries are now open. For event details see the LVO website.

👏Well done and thank you to NorthWest Orienteering Club for hosting a fantastic NI Long Distance Championship at Carntogher yesterday. It was fantastic running on great courses in new terrain, with a new map. Super event overall enjoyed by us all! 🏆There was a good turnout form LVO with a number coming home as newly crowned NI Champions! M10, Aran Power, M12 Jack Wilkins, M14 James Ewart, M16 Peter Gamble, M50 Ivan Millar, M55 Lyle Fleming, M70 Wilbert Hollinger, W12 Orla Lynch, W20 Meadow McCauley, W21 Aine McCann, W40 Stephanie Pruzina, W45 Moire O’Sullivan, W50 Jane Wilson, W55 Aileen McCarron, Read More …

The table “Resources>OneDrive Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” carries a variety of information. Firstly it is a register of members as reported by the BOF membership system. New members (very welcome!) are highlighted in green – if you meet up with any your job is to provide advice and welcome; pink and yellow highlighting shows previous members who have not rejoined for 2022 – your job in this case if you know them is to plead, cajole or threaten them into rejoining, for the more members we have the wider the event staging load can be spread (and, incidentally, helping with event Read More …

Various tables have been updated. Go “Resources>OneDrive Public” then:- “>NISeries>NISeries2022.pdf”. This is a copy of the official table which will appear on the NIOA website. There are lots of notional scores for folk who couldn’t run their colour courses because of organising duties or JIRCs selection – well done to all of them. It’s also congratulations to James Ewart and Aran Power who, with 2 events to go, cannot be overtaken! “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. With 4 colour events remaining it’s time to set your colour badge aims for the year and make sure that you enter the courses that will Read More …

What a brilliant weekend of Orienteering! Saturday saw the Individual Races for the Junior Regional Championships and the NI Colour Series. Well done to all NI Junior team members battling against 168 of the best juniors from across the UK in some fantastic but challenging courses. A special mention to James Ewart who finished 9th in his first year as M14 and Anastasia who finished 10th in W16 – great runs! Later in the day the courses in Tyrella were opened up for a NI Colour Series event which entertained another 112 competitors including many visiting UK coaches, pitting their Read More …

🍀 Wishing the very best to the NI Junior squad who will be competing in the Junior Interregional Championships (JIRCS) this weekend. 👍The team coached by Steph Pruzina, all come from LVO this year – Sam Graham M14, Luke Gardiner M14, James Ewart M14, Peter Gamble M16, Oliver O’Kane M18, Ben Cairns M18, Dan Murphy M18, Zach Murphy M18, Anastasia Mahlych W16, Chloe Grattan W16. 🏖The individual race will be ran on Saturday morning, just before the NI Colour Series event, on the sand dunes of Ballykinler, Tyrella. The relay race will be in the same area on Sunday morning. Read More …

Health and mobility issues mean that I get my O-kicks sitting at a PC, printing your event maps and post-processing your results. The latter activity brings you the NI Series, the Club Colour Standards, Spring Cup and Autumn Trophy tables and the hCOW Colour and hCOW WEE scores and handicaps. From elsewhere you can get the BOF Rankings, the monthly WEE winners and, presumably on-the-way, the NI Urban League tables. All intended to help you compare yourself with others and yourself and so improve your O-skills. Well here comes another one! The more senior (i.e. old!) members may remember, in Read More …

“Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2022” The hCOW tables have been updated with the results from Tollymore. With 7 out of 12 events to count Moiré O’Sullivan looks to be in pole position, and Olivia Baxter and Kenny Weir make up the trio who are now able to drop their worst scores from the remaining events – incidentally Olivia and Kenny also compiled a full WEE Series set of scores. The event results are in “Event8.pdf”, the series positions are in “Series Table.pdf” and your handicap history is in “Handicap Table.pdf”. There’s also a further table “Regatta Table.pdf” which will run through the autumn’s Read More …

Tyrella is one of the best orienteering areas in Northern Ireland and so is convenient for those living around the Belfast and Newcastle areas, so don’t miss out! Entries to the NI Colour Series Event at Tyrella on Saturday 24 September now close in less than 7 days at midnight on Sunday 18 September. It is of course usual to also be able to offer Entry on the Day (at non member prices), or even late entries by email or phone, but for this location this is NOT POSSIBLE. Please read and understand the additional ID requirments to access the area, Read More …

“Resources>OneDrive Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” The Colour Standards table has been updated with the Tollymore results. The new colour, Short Blue, has been introduced as lying, unless someone tells me otherwise, between Blue and Green in the colour standards hierarchy. Congratulations to Anastasia Mahlych and Henry Montgomery as being the first to achieve Short Blue status. Even if you weren’t at Tollymore you may find that your status has changed as all of the 2021 Spring events now fall outside the 12-month window within which your counting results must fall.