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.
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 …
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 …
The list of Junior Training events for 2015 are now available. Get them in your diary soon to avoid disappointment.
We have been advised by the International Orienteering Federation that the application to stage an IOF World Ranking Sprint as part of the Irish Sprint Championships on 1 May 2015 has been accepted. This element of the Sprint will be organised by Great Eastern Navigators of Dublin in partnership with Lagan Valley Orienteers and will be one of the several events of the Lisburn City Festival of O on the weekend of 1 – 4 May. Initial information on the Festival is available at the website www.ioc2015.org, and entries can now be made online with SI Entries. Harold White on behalf of Lagan Read More …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …