With the first colour event of the year coming up on Saturday at Pomeroy, the hCOW2023 spreadsheet has been set up with its 228 columns, ready to receive the results of your endeavours. A list of your starting handicaps has been published as Event0 – it will be subsumed into the Pomeroy results when they are calculated. Note that it also shows, highlighted in red, those who got results in last year’s colour events (and thus got a handicap) but who haven’t yet renewed for 2023 so won’t be able to score points until they do. “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2023>Event0.pdf”

As most of you will know, together we (all three NI orienteering clubs) are hosting the British Sprint and Middle Distance Champs along with the TrailO Champs in early May this year. 🏆The British Champs are blue ribband events in the UK Orienteering competition calendar and will attract hundreds of participants from across the UK and beyond. There are already over 260 entered including elite orienteers from the GB Team. The last time a major event came our way was the JK in 2011, so it’s not everyday we have the chance to run alongside the best in the business, Read More …

We are delighted to present our next LVO event on Saturday 11th March at Slieve Garron. Lots of info & pre-entry link ⤵️ Spring Cup 1 – Slieve Garron This is beautiful open mountain terrain, between Castlewellan and Dromara, with stunning views (weather gods permitting) across to Slieve Croob one way, & the Mourne Mountains the other. That’s if you get a chance to look up, of course 😜 We look forward to seeing you there. (Oh and enjoy Pomeroy this Saturday if you’re going) Aileen, Richard & Susan

📣The deadline for the first Colour Series event of the year is 10pm this evening – Sunday 26 February! 👍Hosts NorthWest Orienteering Club are inviting us to Pomeroy Forest Don’t miss out – for info and booking click on NICS1 Pomeroy

With the first colour event of the year coming up at Pomeroy the hCOW spreadsheet is being readied to receive the results from the technical difficulty 5 courses (brown, blue, green, short green for NICS and short blue, short green for Club colour events). A change this year is that last year’s finishing handicaps are being carried forward so points for regularity and for improvement (Regatta) can be collected at Pomeroy. Also note that points are awarded only to current members; joining late will retrospectively adjust your handicap but will not collect points. That means you have 2 things to Read More …

😐Unfortunately we have not had quite enough interest to place an order for LVO kit. To place an order we need at least 5 requests for each particular item. Sorry to those who have expressed an interest and completed the form, we will hold your request and hopefully some more orders will come in soon – get a move on LVOers! No payment needed until delivery. Here is the link to the online form.

What a great day! 👍Thank you to everyone who came along to compete in our first Club Championship event of the year. 🌞Weather was as great as the ‘running’ and the craic. Of course, for us all to have so much fun on the side of a Belfast hill we rely on our happy band of volunteers. Here’s a go at remembering and thanking👏 those who helped out – firstly, to Mark Earnshaw for planning, Mark Pruzina for sorting entries and behind the scene IT support, Nastia and her friend Yaroslava with a little help from myself and Gavin. Control Read More …

📣Calling all LVO Members – can you answer these 3️⃣ simple but important questions to help shape our club plans? ❓What are we doing well?  ❓What do we need to improve? ❓What do you want us to be doing in the coming years?  ✔If you have any answers to these questions, please get in touch! We need members to let us know what you think about the club, to help us put together our new strategic plan.  💻You can write down your thoughts and email them to strategy@lvo.org.uk. Or if you’d prefer to chat, send an email and we’ll get in Read More …

🏆Whether you have made it to the Score Training or not, you are very welcome to enter the LVO Score Champs. Anyone can take part but remember to be eligible (run competitively) you need to have your 2023 membership sorted – click here to join/renew. 💻There will be no entry on the day due to City Council restrictions so hurry along and enter online here. ⛅After a little rain this evening, the weather forecast is dry all the way through to next week, so running conditions should be good. ☕The Junior refreshments stall will be up again, so hang around Read More …

All of us (60+ participants) who attended the Indoor-O at Ballyclare High School, were given a good test, courtesy of Stephen Gilmore’s masterly planning skills. Those of us with previous experience on this map, tried to use this to our advantage, but, with out of bounds and one way systems in place, it was a fresh challenge. Fortunately most of us managed to finish the examination, those who passed the harder course with distinction were: Olivia Baxter and Daniel Vasey (1st and 2nd Seniors) and Anastasia Mahlych and Luke Gardiner (1st and 2nd Juniors). 👏 🤸‍♀️Lots of our juniors did Read More …