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LVO, Ho, Ho! Christmas-O and Social – Friday 6th December The LVO Christmas Social returns with a bit of a twist! We’re in for a Christmas Cracker! This year the Night-O goes indoors at Ballyclare High School and our meal/social will be at the Chimney Corner Hotel, Newtownabbey. Everyone Welcome! Whether you have you been lucky enough to enjoy the LVO Christmas Social over the last few years or heard about how good it is and want to join in on the Christmas Craic for the first time, don’t delay – booking and payment to Ric Gamble.  Meal/Social Where? Chimney Read More …

The Colour Standards Table has been updated with the results of the NISeries#6 event at a wet and physical Pomeroy Forest. It is also heartening to see the pink highlighting disappearing as folk renew their membership for 2020! The table can be viewed at “Resources>LVO Public Folders>Colour Standards”.

The colour standards table has been updated with the results from NISeries#5 at Crossmurrin. The standard achievement shown on the race results don’t necessarily match the standard actually achieved (e.g. no gender seperation) so have a look to see how you stand. There are 2 more opportunities this year to post colour standard achievement – Pomeroy (NI#6 all colours) and Hillsborough (AT#3 green, orange, yellow). The colour standards table also shows membership status and has been updated to match BOF opening the 2020 membership renewal facility. Thus the 2yr-lapsed members (yellow highlighting) have been deleted, the 1yr-lapsed members (pink) have Read More …

The details of the NISeries #6 event were incorrect in the earlier post. |The event will be at Pomeroy Forest on 9th November. Apologies for any confusion caused.

The NISeries tables have been updated with the results from NISeries #5 at Crossmurrin. They can be found in Public Documents in the folder “NISeries”. The tables have been pared down to show only those folk who can complete 4 or more events in the year (they’re the only folk who can qualify as class winners). There a few classes undecided as yet – all involve LVOers. Most require the leader to just finish at Magilligan but BrownMen is a straight fight between Richard Vasey and Michael Burton!

Athletics Northern Ireland will host Dr Stephen Seiler, Professor of Sports Science at the University of Adger in Norway, to deliver a seminar on training balance for endurance athletes “Intensify or Extend? Balancing Training Prescription across the Distance Running Range” The seminar is aimed at endurance athletes training for middle and long distance events and their coaches. The session will be held at the Stormont Hotel, Belfast 7.30pm – 9.30pm on Friday 8th November 2019 https://athleticsni.org/News/Athletics-NI-News/Athletics-NI-Host-Endurance-Coach-Network-with-Dr-Stephen-Seiler

After the intricacies of East Belfast experienced at this week’s Sporteering 7, come along to Ormeau Park on Wed 30 Oct for the first of the WENT events. These trining activities take place in parks and are designed to allow all levels of orienteer to improve their skills while getting some much need exercise and have a good deal of fun in the process. All you need to join in is suitable attire and shoes for running on potentially wet and mucky grass! Ideally bring a compass and a head torch, but we will have some to lend you if Read More …

This innovative Training weekend is aimed at ALL orienteers – adult & junior – and will include a Friday evening workshop, training exercises, training race, physical training workshop and more… The Training Camp is for orienteers of all ages and levels of experience – beginner, intermediate, advanced, elite. The weekend will be led by GEN’s David Healy with support from senior squad orienteers. All club orienteers are welcome to sign up – this event is only open to members of IOA or NIOA affiliated clubs. For this training weekend, all children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult. Cost: Read More …

All you need to know for Sporteering 7 are on the event page. Wednesday will be a sad day for the friends of Colin Henderson and so this Sporteering on Wednesday evening following his funeral has been planned as a little tribute to Colin. Come along and find out how.

Sharing the sad news of the death of Colin Henderson: https://www.niorienteering.org.uk/colin-henderson-mbe-1949-2019/