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To help understand the needs of our members and direct our club offer, we intend to send out some short survey/questionnaires; and the first thing we want to look into is your preference of time and day for participating in weekend events. Below is a link to a short (less than 4 minute) questionnaire we would really appreciate your feedback on. Your individual views and opinions count! LVO WEEKEND EVENT SURVEY The prize for anyone who fills this in, is a hug from Juls (of course I haven’t sought permission for this but I’m sure she’ll be fine with that if Read More …

The tables can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then: for Colour Standards go “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. Very little movement, probably because no 2021 events fell outside the 12-month window over which your standard is achieved. for Autumn Trophy go “Club Colour Series>2022AutumnTrophy.pdf”. The tables are based on place points in the various categories, with your 2 (out of 3) lowest to count and with event organisers getting their best scores from the other events. Plenty to play for at Cairn Wood. for hCOW go “hCOW>hCOW2022> then for the Slievenagore results go “Event10.pdf”. This shows a bias towards the Green course Read More …

Last minute entry for this Sunday’s Urban League race in Craigavon – Deadline is 12.00! For all the info and link to entries click here!

🌒On the evening of the 3 November, you are invited to the first of seven Wednesday Evening Night Training activities. 🌓This week we the training will be at Ormeau Park. On alternate weeks we will meet in parks and in the weeks in between we will head to Lisburn and use three Night MapRun Score courses for training and a bit of fun competition. 🌔Everyone welcome, especially newcomers click here for more info.

Well done to all those who put on and participated in the events this past weekend. Slievenagore Autumn Trophy 2 – A beautiful day in south Down in contrast to most of the rest of the country on Saturday was very welcome to participants and volunteers alike. 👍Special thanks to Organiser Michael Murphy, Planner George Savell, Controller Greg McCann, MOO Tower Henry Montgomery, Susan Lambe and Geoffrey Collins with IT (and Mark Pruzina remotely!), Alan Gartside for printing and those who helped with starts and other bits and bobs. 🟡Yellow Winners: Odhran Counihan M12 and Aoibh Wilson W10 🟠Orange winners: Read More …

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 …