Irish Orienteering Championships – Volunteers

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The Club is hosting the Irish Championships that includes an IOF World Ranking Event over the weekend of 1 to 4 May and with six events we need a good number of officials to stage them. Ann Savage has taken on the job of volunteer recruitment and will be keen to talk to all club members on Saturday at Crawfordsburn and in subsequent weeks. Otherwise you could contact her at annsavage@ballyhayroad.co.uk. We will try as best as possible to let all officials have a run. Please volunteer and support your Club in staging this major event. Harold White Event Coordinator

IntrO is back!

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There will be a PreO course available on Saturday next, before the start of the NIScore Champs, which will count towards the 2015 PreO Champs.  It will consist of 4 controls packed into a 160m course from the Scout camp gate to the Score start area.  It will be removed once the Score event is under way so make sure you give it time in order to meet the 14:30 Score start time. If you haven’t entered the Score Champs yet get in contact with Ann Savage as soon as possible – I have my finger poised over the printer Read More …

Compass Capers

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Our Junior Squad had a great afternoon out at Barnett’s Park practicing compass work. This session required our team to be able to locate the control flag on several courses in which elements of the map detail had been removed. This needed accurate compass work. As did the very tricky corridor exercise that they were tasked with completing at the end. All of this followed a time trial preparation run as the warm up. A big thank you goes to Steph P for planning a great session. We also had a number of beginners at the training who got the Read More …

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 …

Championships Come To Crawfordsburn – Saturday 21st February

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The first two Northern Ireland Orienteering Championships of 2015 are being run at Crawfordsburn Country Park on 21st February. The park is sign-posted from the A2 Belfast to Bangor Road and parking will be in the grounds of the Scout Center. The Score Championships will have registration from 1.30pm with a mass start at 2.30pm The Night Championships will start as soon as it is dark enough – probably after 5.30pm.Don’t forget your watches and head torches. Between the two competitions there will be the NIOA Prize giving and you can also enjoy light refreshments organised in aid of the Read More …

Wait for it!

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The equipment check at Kilwee has been postponed for a week.  It will now take place at 11:00 on 14th February.  Show your love of the sport on St Valentines day and come and lend a hand.        

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.

1, 2, miss a few…… 99, 100!

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Orienteering in France / Italy

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Dear Club Secretary, I am circulating information on the wonderful week of  orienteering in Briancon, in the Hautes Alpes of SE France  and in Sestriere in neighbouring Piemont, Italy, which will  take place during the last week of August 2015.  I would be grateful if you could circulate this to your club  members. The competitions will consist of two x three day events, all  in alpine terrain, with wonderful scenery, excellent maps  and courses to beat everyone. If you read the Tale of Two Sprints, published in the  December 2014 edition of CompassSport, then you will know that an adventure awaits you, Read More …

IOF World Ranking Sprint – 1st May 2015

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The IOF have adopted a new computer system, Eventor, where all prospective competitors in IOF events need to register to obtain the necessary IOF ID before entering any events such as the World Ranking Sprint in Lisburn on 1 May. Competitors in Northern Ireland have the option of registering as Irish or British but this will determine their national designation for the rest of the calendar year and could have follow on consequences in future years if they are a senior. Therefore if you want to represent Ireland at further events this year you should register as Irish. Should you have any Read More …