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.