JIRCs Team Members Get Practicing

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Some members of the NI JIRCs team, Rachel, Peter and Andrew, along with Luke, took part in some training at Lady Dixon in preparation for the competition in the Lake District in England. This was a final opportunity to hone all the skills and techniques that we have been practicing all year prior to the tough races to come. Each junior was shadowed by a coach and had to be able to visualise the control sites, select the right technique for locating the site, work out the quickest route and have the precision to be able to pinpoint each control Read More …

Junior Inter Regional Champs

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The NI team of 12 for the JIRCs has been selected and will depart for the Lake District on the 26 Sep to take part on the 2 days of competition. Day one is a tricky corse in the technical terrain of forest, mountain side and crags near Ulverston. Day two will be no easier with races occurring in the sand dunes near Barrow on Furness. It is promising to be an adventure with nights spent on the floors of school and church halls thrown in. More information will follow plus a round up after the event.

EYOC 2014

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A big congrats to the local juniors that took part in the European Youth Orienteering Championships in Macedonia in Jun representing Ireland. The results can be found at the link.  A great effort by Paul P, James M, Fazer H and Peter M in putting in some solid performances across all the days.

Festival of Orienteering

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Relaxing after a long day of orienteering in the sun Lots of the juniors from our club took part in the orienteering festival in Newcastle and Tollymore over the weekend 20 – 22 Jun. The weather, for once, was glorious with temperatures in the early 20OC making it the ideal weekend for camping. Scene from the camp site The Sprint Map The weekend started with a sprint race around Newcastle on the Friday evening with juniors having to negotiated parkland and urban control sites. This was tricky going and required careful attention to the control descriptions. Start of the Sprint Read More …

Sunny Simplification

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The juniors took part in a training exercise at Belfast Castle on a hot sunny Sunday afternoon on the 15 Jun. The name of the game was to locate the exact control point, using the map and control descriptions and to do so by simplifying the map picture as much as possible. Once at the centre of the control circle you had to be very sure as there was no kite to help.  It was hard work in the sun but good fun for all.

Seeing the Tree for the Wood

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Juniors took part in training at Barnett’s Park in which they had to complete a course that had the control kites placed very low and hard to find. To do so they had to really work hard at visualising the control site location so they knew they were in the right place exactly rather than hunting for the kite itself when in the rough area. They also had to write down the control description for each site and check that off at the end against the answers.  

Belvoir Park Training Round-Up: Sun 27 Jan

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Paul’s  Squad – honest, it’s warm once you’re in! Check Out the Junior Training from Sun Some 14 juniors had a great time on Sun at Belvoir Park learning about map symbols, control descriptions and using the map information to find our way around the course. Check out the pictures from the day below. After the training we all got the chance to put our new skills to use on the score training event. It was a cold day as you can see but we all had fun. Next event is the 9 Feb at Hillsborough. Check out the training Read More …