Outstanding in their filed The juniors had a great weekend of orienteering in South Down over the 21 – 23 Jun.  It started on the Fri night with an urban race round Newcastle. The colour series race was held on Sat and was followed by junior training with a chance to practice a stat course based on compass work. There followed a wet start on Sun when the juniors took part in a loop course through the forest and put their compass skills to the test. This was then followed by a club score course when the juniors got the Read More …

New post on the technical page telling you not to make the mistake I (Paul) did on Saturday – Compulsory Crossing Points.

More details are out about about the Tollymore Weekend of Orienteering (http://lvo.jimdo.com/tollymore-festival-of-orienteering/). There will be plenty of racing going on with events on Friday night (Urban race) and on Saturday and Sunday as well. Online entries can be found at  http://www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?EventID=86. Why not stay over and join in the BBQ and camping fun!! There will also be junior training on the Saturday and on the Sunday. Check out the Training Page for the details. I hope to see you all there. Lots of Fun in the Forest

Some more details added to the incentive scheme as we have had more people qualify for awards. Well done everyone. Keep the effort up.

Check out the Incentive Scheme page for an up to date listing on the story so far – keep those awards coming.

What colour standard are you?Colour standards are worked out by completing three courses of the same standard, within either:– 150% of the winners time– the time which 50% of finishers complete the course inEither or these is used to allow as many people as possible to achieve the colour standardA list of the standards people have achieved is here.

Getting ready to enter the woods Luke returns successfully 10 Juniors took part in compass training at Hillsborough Forest Park. This was an extension of the cones exercise from the last session. Like the cones exercise the course was made from a grid of 9 control sites but this time they were in the forest and some 50 – 100m apart. Juniors had loop courses to complete. They had to use the compass to keep the map set and make their way through the forest, without using the paths, to locate the next control site. Rachel heads in at speed. Read More …

Check out the training page for information on the next junior session at Hillsborough

Well done to all the juniors who took part in the training at Slievenagore and then followed that up by taking part in the races after. We spent some time looking at basic compass use and concentrating on map setting using the compass. That was a useful skill to have for the races afterwards that had some tricky controls to find. The next set of training sessions will concentrate on developing our compass skills so check out the training page for more details. Don’t you hate it when someone turns up wearing the same shirt! Little brotherly love shown on Read More …

Head over to the Technical page for stuff on Control Descriptions – new post up now!