Join us on 24th-26th June for our 13th Tollymore Weekend. Orienteering! Food! Craic! Camping! Midges! A French Boule (if you know, you know). As always, we are open to club members, as well as members of other O clubs and non-members too. Come join the fun. Entries open now! Please share with your friends. Click here to enter –> https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/tollymore-festival-of-orienteering-2022-o/
Due to the membership renewal of John Crozier (welcome back, John!) and his appearance at WEE2&3 the handicaps after WEE3 have altered by a few secs/km from those published on Thursday. There has also been a ripple effect on the scoring with Anastasia Mahlych still leading on 13 points followed by Billy Reed on 15 and Mark Pruzina and Kenny Weir on 17. Don’t forget that hCOW is a regularity test so keep those mistakes at bay (or keep making the same ones each time!).
Thanks to all the participants for coming to the event, those who helped take in controls, Alan G for the map printing, Daphne for planning, Fred for organising, Cecil for coordinating and wrestling with the technology and Mark P for digging Cecil out when technology had him pinned to the floor. Routegadget: https://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#463 (note that you can get a Splitsbrowser window by clicking on the first icon to the right of the blue bar) WinSplits http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=82009
The hCOW outcomes from WEE3 at Barnett Demesne can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2022”. With three events gone and therefore with some folk having 2 scores it’s newcomer (welcome!) Anastasia Mahlych leading with 13 followed closely by old-stagers Mark Pruzina and Billy Reed on 14. Until the August fixtures are determined the number of counting scores can’t be finalised but it will probably be about 7 so you need to get results posted asap. An event variance of -56 secs/km shows things are getting faster, possibly due to the flat, therefore speedy(!), legs across the University playing fields.
😬 Grit your teeth, with only one week to go in the May league, we are in for a tight finish. Only 4 points separate the top three position in both the Long and Short courses. Last month I made a few errors with my sums, so should all be fixed now. The high scores means I need more beads for my abacus. 🏃♀️🏃♂️Long Course: Well done to the 21 people who have participated at all three venues this month, fantastic effort! There has been some movement at the top. Presently in the top six positions are, Anastasia Mahlych 60 Read More …
🖐Fermanagh Orienteers are inviting us to enjoy some excellent courses in the next Colour Series event. ⚪🟡🟠🟢🔵🟤 8 differently coloured courses to choose from, all ages and abilities catered for, courses for newcomers all the way up to the most experienced runner. NICS3 is taking place at Florencecourt on Saturday 28 May. 📢The deadline for online entry is this Sunday (22 May). Don’t miss out enter here now! 📝For more information visit: NI Colour Series 3 Florencecourt – Fermanagh Orienteers (wordpress.com)
👀 Check out Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council’s piece on the opening of the new Permanent Orienteering Courses on the updated map: Royal Hillsborough welcomes Scandinavian orienteers for outdoor adventure! (lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk) 🎥 LCCC also posted this short video on Facebook 🟡🟠🟢 There are three different courses to choose from of varying lengths and degree of challenge. 🏃♀️🌲🚶♂️ If you haven’t yet had the chance to explore Hillsborough Forest yourself, you can get more info and download a map here: Hillsborough Forest – Go Orienteering
👏 Thanks to all three NI clubs there continues to be many more O-events to enjoy this May/June. 👍 At the weekend Fermo welcomed and entertained us with fun, interesting and challenging NI Sprint and Middle Distance Championship courses. Well done to all LVOers wo made the trip west and especially to the following for their podium (NI positions) making runs. NI Sprint Champs: 🥇🥈🥉 W Open Aine McCann and Olivia Baxter. W40+ Moire O’Sullivan and Sarah Gamble. W55+ Stephanie Pruzina and Heather Cairns. W65+ Helen Baxter, Ann Savage and Barbara Foley-Fisher. W16 Anastasia Mahlych MOpen Chris Colwell, George Savell Read More …
The table can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2022”. It shows 23 folk (those who also ran at Hillsborough) scoring their first points with the list being ordered by variance i.e. the amount by which the on-the-day speed improved on handicap, showing Dai Wilson (middle of the list) scoring fewest penalties. Although all 23 went faster than handicap 11 of them, who didn’t improve as much as Dai, have had their handicap increased for Barnett’s next week. With Barnett’s also being a parkland terrain there shouldn’t be as big a variance in the results (although it is Fred Hamond doing the Read More …
We had a good turnout last night of 53 competitors on the Long course and 22 on the Short. Apologies to the competitors on the Short course who had to give up their map because we had run out, due to the number of entries on the night. It helps a lot if you have pre-entered. You can see and print the map if you follow the liink to Routegadget below. For the details see:Simple results: https://lvo.org.uk/liveresults/Routegadget: https://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#460Winsplits: http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=81733