Our juniors took part in some cones and compass exercises before competing in a race at Stormont, Belfast.  Well done every one it was a tough race with a lot of fences to contend with!! Ben finds an other use for the control!! Cones and Map Setting Exercise The Stormont Course

There will be basic map setting training available for juniors on Saturday at Stormont. This will include compass use so bring one along.  It will take place for 45 minutes prior to the start, so from 1045 to 1130. You can join in during that period when you like and the exercise will take 10 – 15 minutes to complete at the most.

Our juniors took part in a training session at Barnett’s Park with the aim of practicing compass and pacing skills in low visibility. Alison had developed a great ‘mist course’ in which all the detail had been removed from the map (as if in the mist) with only the detail inside the control circle visible. This was tough training and really demonstrated the need to set an accurate bearing and know how far you had gone. It didn’t help when you came across a large thicket in the way and had to work your way around and still keep on Read More …

Congratulations to those LVO members selected for the Irish Squad. JWOC (in Bulgaria in July) Jack Millar Mark StephensEYOC (in Macedonia in June)Frazer Howe (LVO)Paul Pruzina (LVO)James Millar (LVO)Good luck everyone!!

Round Tower at Glendalough Monastery Well done everyone who took part in the Irish Orienteering Championships in Wicklow. The sprint race took part on Friday eventing in Maynooth and the Middle and Classic distance races took place near Glendalough. The conditions on day 2 and 3 where extremely challenging to say the least. The visibility on the top of the mountain at the start was so poor you could hardly see the cars from the assembly tent less than 100 m away. It made for interesting orienteering on the open mountainside with visibility reduced to 30 m on day 2. Read More …

It was a great day out on Sat 26 Apr at Belfast Castle. The day started with some basic compass refresher work prior to moving onto the main race itself. The hill didn’t make it easy!! Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee – but who is who? Well done also to everyone who took part in the Spring Cup race. A very big congrats to Sophie, Rachel and Andrew who completed the Green Course. This was no easy task either as it went right up over the mountain top.

Visit the training page for the latest update on the next technical training session – 11 May.

2 new technical articles up – one on aiming off, the other on attackpoints

Two new training dates have been added to the junior training programme for Jun 1 and 15. Check out the training page and get them in the diary.

Peter races in to the finish Donovan having fun The Junior Squad, and a lot of adults, turned up to Cairn Wood for some O trainining. This started with a 2 or 3 Km time trail run, a lot of which was up hill! After this the lesson focused in on ‘map simplification’. Athletes were given a map with some of the detail removed, that is simplified. They had to use handrails, attack points and catching features to navigate to the control. The squad at the end The last part of the event was a memory test. Juniors took part Read More …