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 …

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Juniors from the club, and from across Ireland, took part in 3 days of orienteering in Derry/Londonderry over the St Patrick’s Weekend. The event started with a Middle Distance race in Binevenagh Forest on the Saturday. Sunday started with a sprint race in the city centre around the walls, then a sprint race around St Columb’s Park before a final sprint race at the Ulster University campus in Coleraine. MOnday was back to St Columb’s park for a final sprint race. Ready for the start at Binevenagh At the finish of Binevenagh Waiting for a Toastie Part of the middle Read More …

Visit the Training Page for the details abut the next junior training session on the 23 Mar. Looking forward to seeing you all then.

The juniors had the chance to confirm their paces over 100m at the Spring Cup race on the 1 March. This will be a great help at the start of the season.  The results are: Name Walking on the flat Run on the flat Walk downhill Walk up hill Run downhill Run up hill Donovan 73 44 67 77 39 58 Andrew 64 53 58 66 42 66 Ben 71 58 68 70 40 60 Ellen 65 35 60 62 35 46 Matthew 65 34 56 62 28 39 Peter R 74 35 63 69 36 50

Remember that there will be a bun/cake sale at Spring Cup 1 at Belvoir this Saturday (1st March) so bring along something nice to sell.

On Saturday 22nd February almost 50 LVOers made the trip to Loughrey College and MUSA, just outside of Cookstown, for the NI Score Championships. The area was a mixture of buildings, farmland and tricky woodland, in which runners had 50 minutes to collect as many of the 28 controls as possible, with points deducted for being late back. Top performances of LVO juniors went to James Millar and Jill Stephens, winning the Junior M and W classes, with Harry Earnshaw, Matthew Smith, Peter Reed, Andrew Elwood, Rachel Collins, Sophie Pružina and Clare Reid all in the top 5 in their Read More …

I am planning on adding new technical articles every week or two, hopefully to match up with what Alan is planning for the next training session if possible. So head over to the technical page for the latest one.Paul

Check out the training page for details about the next junior training session at the NI Score and Night O champs on 22 Feb.

Well done to the following people who achieved initial or improved colour standard results for 2013. Great going everyone: Paul P: BrownMatthew Smith: BlueSophie P: Light GreenTom E: OrangeAndrew E: OrangePeter McC: OrangeNicholas M: OrangeSimon P: OrangePeter R: OrangeClare R: OrangeEllen S: OrangeChristopher McC: YellowDaniel V: YellowMatthew V: Yellow