Our latest Craigavon Community Orienteers’ event. Another newly extended map and in my mind incorporating some of the best bits of the park, previously not included on the old map. I know i’m a little late in posting but the lurgy has had the better of me for most of the week. I’ll be off out into the frosty gardens shortly to finalise the planning under the gorgeous blue skies, but courses on offer will be Yellow, Orange, and Light Green. So if you’re at a loss as to what to do tomorrow and want to get out into the crisp Read More …

After a glorious evening in Botanic Gardens and the Queen’s campus, with a view of the spectacular poppy installation at the Ulster Museum, we return to SnookerO, this time at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park. Meet on Wednesday evening in the top car park at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm mass start as usual. Use the session to prepare for the WENT Finale, also in Dixon Park; will Santa’s elves and the gremlins get involved this year? Come and find out and be prepared for damp feet.

A very small (but elite!) field undertook the challenge of the timed control at Carnfunnock last Saturday.  The results are: Rachel Collins 4 correct: 28secs Gordon Stephens (preO score 6) 4 correct: 43secs Frazer Howe 4 correct 43secs Richard Williamson (preO score 6) 3 correct: 44secs + 60sec penalty = 104secs Cecil Armstrong 2 correct: 86secs + 120sec penalty = 206secs Mark Pruzina (preO score 7) 4 correct: time exceeded = 360secs Three people completed both parts  (Crawfordsburn and Carnfunnock) of the LVO TrailO Championship so it is my pleasure to congratulate Mark Pruzina on becoming the LVO TrailO Champion Read More …

Christmas Social Tickets will be on sale again tomorrow at the Autumn Trophy event at Carnfunnock (from the man in the silly hat!) Adults £17, Under 18’s £15. To confirm your reservation a full payment must be made by Wednesday 29th November. Catering limits tickets to a maximum of 60, so early payment advised. Alternatively an online payment can be made to sort code 07-00-40 and account number 31806575. Please ensure you use your name as a reference. Full details can be found on previous post by clicking on Older posts below.

LVO offers help with the cost of Juniors participating in representative events but you’ll need to get your claims for any 2017 trips in now! The end of November is the strict deadline. Visit the Juniors section of the LVO website to see what you can claim for. If you’ve any queries please contact me at treasurer@lvo.org.uk or see me at the Carnfunnock event. Harry Bell

The PreO event at Crawfordsburn 2 weeks ago produced many ties in the results.  To resolve these there will be a timed control at Carnfunnock tomorrow.  This is not confined to the PreO competitors – everyone is free to enter, and it is FREE to enter.  Come along to get your brain cells warmed up before your run, it will only take 5 minutes of your time.  It’s in the walled garden; enter by the gate off the lower car park and follow the signs.  It’s open from 11:30 until 12:45.  I’ll be in the vicinity of the MOO with Read More …

NIOA will be holding a Coaching Ideas Workshop on Monday 20th November in the Royal School Dungannon, starting at 7.30pm. If you are already a coach, thinking about becoming a coach, an athlete with ideas about what coaching should provide or just generally interested in how to improve orienteering training then this workshop is for you. All we ask is that, if you are already a coach, you bring an example or 2 of coaching exercises or drills that you have developed and that you are happy that other coaches can ‘re-invent’. If you are an athlete that has been Read More …

Well done to all 33 who took part, running to gain points for LVO. Today the club received £500 in Decathlon vouchers, plus a trophy, for finishing in second place on average points score.    Andrew, Angela, Mandy, Wilbert and Trevor represented LVO at the awards ceremony. Andrew, one of our newest members, amassed a massive 13,810 points cycling, and visiting all the beat boxes and in numerical order.   He visited all 373 boxes, covering a distance  of some 630 miles.  Susan, I hear,  visited all the boxes on foot.   Impressive indeed. It is hoped that the Sunday urban events Read More …

After last week’s splash experience in Musgrave Park (27 participants – keep it up) this week we are in Botanic Gardens and the QUB Campus. Meet outside the QUB library (beside the main car park) at 7.00pm for a 7.30 mass start as usual. No SnookerO this week – proper courses to take advantage of the urban terrain, but feet may yet get wet in the park. You should also get a great view of the Ulster Museum poppy cascade – brilliant.