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Orchard County Orienteers present : OCOUL 2019 What is it?? NI’s first Urban Orienteering League:7 races, 7 different maps, 5 scores to count, all in the ABC area.The format – Middle Distance Urban – no nettles or brambles ( unless you seek them out ), little mud, and you can show off your legs if you wish. Courses: 3 different classes: 12 & under, under 16’s, and Open, each split M/F with age class adjusted results so everyone starts on a level playing field. Scoring:Times will be adjusted per age class. Points will then be awarded according to how close you get Read More …

Two weeks ago Juls Hanvey (Active Clubs Coordinator) and I attended the SportNI Sportmaker Awards 2018 Celebration Event in the Titanic Centre. The main business of the evening was to present awards to a number of coaches and club officials, but we were one of a number of clubs to receive our Clubmark NI award. It was a slickly organised event – for the main awards, a video describing the winner’s achievements was played as they were presented with the award, followed by short interview. Clubmark is Northern Ireland’s quality standard for sports clubs. The programme aims to identify, develop, Read More …

The Colour Standards table has been updated, and the interim Spring Cup table created, following the exertions last weekend at Belfast Castle. They can be found at “Resources>LVO Public Folders>Colour Standards” and “Resources>LVO Public Folders>Club Colour Series” respectively. To achieve a colour standard you need three results within a 12-month period; the Spring Cup is based on place points with your 2 best performances to count.

We’re off Sporteering again on Wednesday! It’s a 60min urban score on a 1:5000 urban O map. If you have been before then you will know the set up, but if not then it’s very important that you read all the details for the session which are on the fixtures listing on the LVO website here: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-night-running-training-11/

I am currently analysing last Saturday’s Belfast Castle results in order to update the Colour Standards table and produce an initial Spring Cup table. By my reckoning there were 3 folk on the green course who have not yet renewed their membership for 2019 and to whom I cannot therefore assign any points. You can check your current status by going to “Resources>LVO Public Folders>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. Pink or Yellow highlighting and you’re in arrears.

Geoffrey Collins has done his usual sterling job of simultaneous listening and writing to produce draft minutes of our AGM on Feb 3rd at Belvoir. Neither Geoffrey or I can remember who proposed and seconded the adoption of last year’s minutes. Please let secretary@lvo.org.uk know if you remember who did. The minutes are available on the website from Resources > Public Folders > AGMs > LVO AGM 2019 v1.docx Many thanks, Cecil

I’ve been making some Facebook edits this evening, so here’s the story. Come join the social media fun 🙂 Our Public Facebook Page Lagan Valley Orienteers https://www.facebook.com/LVOrienteers/  Our face to the outside world 🙂 Over 500 likes, wow! Loads of pre-event info, training info, photos, news stories etc. Your admins are Susan Lambe, Juls Hanvey, Stephen Gilmore, Colin Smith, Mark Stephens and Stephanie Pruzina. Always room for more admins if you love all things Facebook……… Our Club Group (name change alert!) LVO Chat https://www.facebook.com/groups/laganvalleyorienteers/ Our informal Facebook group for club members. Almost 300 members in there. Everyone’s got equal posting Read More …

It is with great sadness that we report the untimely passing of Gordie Mahood on 5th February. Gordie was an enthusiastic orienteer, a loyal member of Lagan Valley Orienteers and a dedicated organiser. Many will have last seen him at Tyrella in November, quietly ensuring that everything was properly organised in a way that would bring the most satisfaction to his fellow orienteers. Gordie has been living with cancer for a number of years, but still managed to contribute greatly to the orienteering community. He was a regular attender last summer of the WEE series in Belfast, introducing his son Harry Read More …

NFermanagh Orienteers invite you to the Fintona/Seskinore area on Saturday 9th February 2019 for the Score and Night Championships. The NI Prizegiving will be held in the Ecclesville Equestrian Centre, Fintona after the Score. Score Championships  Seskinore Forest, Co Tyrone Directions From Belfast/Dublinfollow A5 from Ballygawley towards Omagh. Approx 10 miles from Ballygawley take the B46 to Seskinore. Just before the village take the B83 (right) towards Omagh. Forest entrance is 0.5 miles on the right.  From Omagh follow the A5 towards Ballygawley. Turn right after approx. 2.5 miles and follow signs for Seskinore on the B83. After approximately 2.5 Read More …

Gentle reminder: in preparation for the LVO AGM could you please return any LVO trophies you have to Gordon Stephens, who may be reached at gordon@lvo.org.uk. Thank-you and best wishes for regaining your trophies this year!