🌟 A run around Lady Dixon Park last night, under a beautiful clear starry sky, concluded our Orienteering for the year. Thank you so much to the wonderful Baxter family for not only warming us with hot chocolate, cocktail sausages and other festive treats on a freezing night 🥶 but organising and planning the WENT series along with Stephen Gilmore who planned the Lisburn MapRuns. 👏 Thank you to every participant and member for supporting our club this year. It has been busy and full of excellent activities and events; I am sure we all have really enjoyable memories (and Read More …

Happy Christmas everyone!

We are off again to Lisburn for WENT this week, meeting again at the Ground cafe at 7.15pm on Wed 7 Dec. This will be for a differnet MapRun using a differnet part of the city of Lisburn. All the details, including the course that you should upload to the MapRun6 or MapRunG are on the page for this activity on the LVO website. The weather is looking cool but dry, so come on down and stay after for a hot chocolate and a particularly good traybake. Sufficent maps are printed!

The Colour History table, showing the achievement of colour standards over the last 32 years, has been updated for the 2022 results. The capital letters show an improvement over your previous standards so you can see your progression (or, in the case of old codgers like me, regression!). Now is the time for resolving to climb the colour ladder and to get to as many colour events as you can in 2023. Furthermore read Ric Gamble’s post about the event roster and resolve to take on some organising duties next year – not only do those who can’t run because Read More …

The LVO Committee have been busy setting up an exciting calendar of events for the coming year. Below is the list of the events planned for 2023. Of course, none of it can happen without the support from you, LVO club members, cheerfully volunteering to fill the vital roles. 😊 A few positions have been filled already but as you can see there is still plenty of choice where you can put your name down. Have a look and plan in where you can help out – You can either insert your name on this file LVO 2023 fixtures and Read More …

The tables have been updated following the final colour event of the year, at Learmount, last Saturday. Go to “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” to see how you finished the year. The “2022 best” column will be transferred to the history table, the out-of date (over 12 months) results will be removed and, at the turn of the year, the membership status will be updated. The 2-yr lapsed (yellow) will be removed, the 1-yr lapsed (pink) will turn yellow (unless you can persuade them to re-join!) and the unrenewed will turn pink. So get your membership renewal off to Read More …

🏆Competition on Saturday On Saturday our friends at North West Orienteering Club hosted the 7th and final event of the NI Colour Series at Learmont. Great runs from a good number of visiting LVO runners including: 🟤George Savell (1st Male Brown), Sarah Knight (1st Female Brown) 🔵Mark Stephens (1st Male Blue), Moire O’Sullivan (1st Female Blue), Heather Cairns (2nd Female Blue) 🟢Ann Savage (1st Female Green), Michael Murphy (2nd Male Green, Carol Black (3rd Female Green), Bill Hopkins (3rd Male Green) 🟢 Anne Bell (2nd Female Short Green), Daphne Hammond (3rd Female Short Green), Richard McCourt (3rd Male Short Green) Read More …

👍Thank you to everyone who completed this survey. The committee have greatly appreciated your feedback and it has informed our programme of events for 2023. Below is a quick summary of the results: 📆The 2023 event calendar will be published soon and is looking very exciting, especially with the British Championships coming here in May! 👀Watch this space – There will be lots of opportunities for you to get involved in the club not only as competitor but with training, coaching and in volunteering roles.

🏆🍂Autumn Trophy Results – Sorry, the results I published in the last post were bit out on a few categories. I should have referred to Alan’s spreadsheet of results which is available for us all to see on LVO’s OneDrive – see here. I didn’t take into account the points that officials deservedly get for being amazing and putting on the events for us to enjoy. I also didn’t rank the men and women and juniors separately – probably because I love the way we compete across different ages and genders in colour courses. Anyway, as a result, Meadow McCauley Read More …

👏Thank you to all those involved in the planning, organising and running of this years three Autumn Trophy events. 😊Three very different events at Tollymore, Slievenagore and Cairn Wood were enjoyed my many of us. To be competitive, participants must have completed in at least two of the three events with the best two results used. 🔵Short Blue: 1st Female Steph Pruzina, 2nd Female & 1st Junior Anastasia Mahlych, Joint 3rd Female Olivia Baxter & Sarah Gamble. 1st Male George Savell, 2nd Male Ivan Millar, 3rd Male Lyle Fleming 🟢Short Green: 1st Female Susan Lambe, 2nd Female Carol Black, 3rd Read More …