WENT Series to Start on 4 Nov

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The 2015 Wednesday Evening Night Training (WENT) Series starts up on Wed 4 Nov in Ormeau Park. Meet in the main carpark at 7.15pm for a mass start score type training event at 7.30pm. Details will be explained on Wednesday but there will be a 45 minute time limit so you will need your head torch and a watch. The full programme is: 4 Nov            Ormeau Park 11 Nov           Musgrave Park 18 Nov          UU Jordanstown Campus 25 Nov          Antrim Castle Gardens 2 Dec             Botanic Gardens and QUB Campus 9 Dec             Hillsborough Forest Park 16 Dec            Christmas Special at Lady Dixon Park Read More …

Training Wed 14 Oct Barnett Demesne

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Wednesday evening training continues at Barnett Demesne starting at 6.45pm.  The session will last about an hour.   For beginners there will be coaching on using a compass and map reading and for the more experienced there will be a ‘planning ahead’ exercise.  The light is fading fast now so head-torches are advised, control card holders will be useful and dibbers are not required.  Compasses will be available if you don’t have one.  If you have any questions you can email me on rdonioa’at’btinternet.com

Club Training – Wednesday 30th September – Hillsborough Forest

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This Wednesdays club training is at Hillsborough Forest again starting at 6.30 PM.  Meet in the main car park off Park Street. Full leg cover is needed.  Also bring a torch just in case we loose the light! Controls will be collected in at 8 PM As each week everyone is welcome.  There will be training available for all.  Beginners, Improvers, Experienced.  Members and non-members. To assist in planning please register so we know how many to expect. Need a lift or can offer a lift? Use the travel sharing page.

Club Training – Wednesday 9th September – Barnetts Demesne

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Wednesday night’s training will look at ‘running and managing race pace’. You need running kit/SI Dibber/pen.  There will be dibbers available to borrow if you don’t have one. This coaching is for all standards – Philip Baxter will be there to help adult novices and Greg McCann will be there for the more experienced. Start time is 7.00pm. Meet at Malone House car park. Non-members are more than welcome to come along. Prices Members Free Non-members £3.00   To assist in planning please register so we know how many to expect.

Junior Training Sunday 15 Feb Technical Compass Use – Barnett’s Park

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Our next training event will be at Barnetts Park on the 15 Feb. This event will focus on better use of the compass. This session will require you to complete exercises as follows: Holes – Find the control when the circle around each control circle, as well as the control circle itself, is blank. Donuts – Move from one control to the next when only a circular area surrounding each control is mapped but each control circle is blank. Blocks – Move between control circles using compass bearings when much of the map detail has been totally removed between the Read More …

Meelmore Contour Training

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The junior squad, as well as a number of adults, took to the hills at Meelmore to practice the use of contours as a navigation aid. It was a great sunny day but snow still lay on the ground as well as a lot of ice. The rivers were cold as well if you fell in!!. This was an excellent opportunity to get those cobwebs blown away after the festive season. It was also ideal training for the Lisburn O Festival in May as the races there will include Slieve Croob.

Junior Training For 2015

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The list of Junior Training events for 2015 are now available. Get them in your diary soon to avoid disappointment.

Map Memory Training

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The squad finished this year’s training off with a tough map memory session at Musgrave Park, all planned by Billy. We started with some star exercises during which you had to look at a small map showing a single control, work out a route, memorise that route and then run to the control and back. Following this each junior had to complete three courses that required them to remember the legs as they went round the course. This was made even more difficult in that the control markers were small bits of paper and not the usual orienteering flag. This Read More …

Next Junior Training Event

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The next junior training event will be held at Musgrave Park on the 30 Nov and will concentrate on map memory skills. We will meet at 1.30 pm. Be sure not to miss out.

Junior Inter Regional Championships Roundup

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Over the weekend 27/28 Sep 14 a team of 11 NI juniors travelled to take part in the Junior Inter Regional Championships in Cumbria, England. Two adults, Alan Elwood and Steph Pruzina, accompanied the team. One member of the LVO squad, Rachel Collins, was unable to attend due to breaking her arm the night before departure. She was greatly missed, as she has been a stalwart of the LVO Junior Development Squad and is a talented athlete.  It also meant there was no NI female relay team, although the remaining females got to run in an ad hoc team. The Read More …