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🌳The lovely Parks and other green spaces across Belfast and beyond will be welcoming back Orienteers on Wednesday evenings in May, June and August. ✏️Get the May dates pencilled in: Ormeau Park 5th May, Barnetts Park 12th May, Botanic Gardens 19th May and Lady Dixon Park 26th May. (All dates/venues subject to permission – we will continue to update here and on the LVO Facebook page) 😷 Due to Covid Restrictions, May’s WEE events will be for Orienteering Club (British Orienteering) members only. If your membership has lapsed or you are new, don’t miss out! Membership info on joining up Read More …

We are going all nostalgic and taking a look back at JK 2011. Yes that is ten years ago….. The largest event ever hosted here, the Jan Kjellstrom International Festival of Orienteering saw over 2,000 orienteers travel to NI for 4 days of the best we have to offer. A huge volunteer effort was led by our very own Harold White as Event Coordinator, along with a sizeable army of officials and helpers. Lots of memories and photos appearing daily over on the NI Orienteering website. Go have a look 🙂 https://www.niorienteering.org.uk/jk-memories-day-1-sprint/

Rescue and Emergency Care Training – Saturday 20 March Congratulations to the eight LVO club members who attended and passed their Rescue and Emergency Care First Aid training on Saturday. Also joined by two Fermo and two NWOC club members, this is the first class of LVO members to go through formal First Aid training for a few years. Many of our first aid qualifications expired during lockdown and it was challenging to arrange training – so big thanks to Raymond Shannon for providing a very professional, Covid safe, days training. With the return to Orienteering competition expected soon, we Read More …

What? REC1 is a 1 day (8 hour) First Aid course specifically designed to treat casualties in an outdoor recreational setting. You will be trained to treat casualties with various injuries including breaks and cuts as well as treating an unconscious casualty. This includes the practice of CPR and the use of an AED. The course is practical and mainly based outdoors with ongoing assessment which will provide you with certification. This qualification will cover you to administer first aid and complete Risk Assessments in all but the most remote areas which are sport uses. Who? This course is for Read More …

May I wish everyone a Happy (and safe!) New Year. The Colour Standards table has been reset for the incoming year. That means that the 2019 record has been removed as it falls outside the retrospective 1-year window used for calculating the standards. The incoming year’s events have been added (all 2 of them!) and hopefully some semblence of order will be returning to the fixture list so that you can build your standard up again (there’s a NY resolution for you – attend every colour event in the year!). The table also shows your membership status and there is Read More …

The Covid Cup is the replacement, in these exceptional times, for the Spring Cup and Autumn Trophy and is based on Spring Cup 1 at Parkanaur, Autumn Trophy 1 at Divis and Autumn Trophy 2 at Donard, using place points and taking the best 2 results out of the three. The results can be found at “Resources>LVO Public Folders>Club Colour Series”. Congratulations to all who kept going through the year and especially to those who contributed their time and effort to putting on the events. Happy Christmas!

The hCOW results, following last Saturday’s Donard event, have been computed. It’s congratulations to Harry Bell and Colin Smith who share the consistency title. My praise for the senior Pruzinas in my last post seems to have been the kiss of death for Mark (have a look at Routegadget!) but at least he can take satisfaction from leading the place point standings, whatever way you want to look at them. I’ve still a bit of thinking to do about handicap management so the 2021 series will be a clean start – all we need now are fixtures!

The colour standards table has been updated with the results of the Donard event and can be found, along with the history table (also updated) at “Resources>LVO Public Folders>Colour Standards”. With only one NISeries event this year the opportunity to reach or maintain brown or blue standard was not available (now there’s a New Year Resolution if ever I saw one!). The table shows, in upper case, the 3 results counting towards your current standard; it also shows the best standard achieved during the year i.e. the best 3 results in any 12-month window ending in 2020 (that’s what transfers Read More …

I hope everyone is looking forward to a potentially damp day on Donard! Just keep a few things in mind: Please read and obey all the Covid regulations as explained in the event details on the website. As part of social distancing make sure you arrive in time to register and get to the start, 15 minutes walk. The Green course as originally planned had an ugly dog leg in it which I knew would upset some of you. So I have added a control, and a tiny bit of distance and some mostly avoidable climb. (4.6k and about 200m Read More …