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.

NI Champs

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The NI Champs and a training session took place over the weekend 4/5 Oct. The champs races were held at Castle Saunderson with the assembly area at the Scout Centre in Cavan.  This is a great location with a mix of open land, runnable forest and more difficult close forest terrain. The LVO team had a great showing securing some excellent results with the awards being presented by WOC Silver Medallist Scott Fraser. The races were followed by a session of sprint training and then, after dinner in the Scout Centre, an inspiring talk on achieving goals and performance excellence Read More …

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 …

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.