Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year holiday. 🦃 The break from our regular orienteering fix, may be like a slice of cold turkey for some of us, and we are itching to get out again. Or maybe the break was refreshing and we are now revitalised and ready to enjoy some new challenges 🤸‍♀️ 😀However you feel, I hope you are ready to get out exploring our parks and forests again because to start with we have two Score Training activities ready for you in January followed by the Club Score Champs on 12 February. 🏆 Read More …

That’s “New Year’s O-Resolution”, by the way. The 2023 Colour Standards table is now available at “Resources>OneDrive Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. It shows your colour standards achievement in 2022 (you can resolve to maintain or improve in 2023), the colour events currently in the 2023 fixture list (you can resolve to get to as many of them as possible) and your current membership status – if you’re clear or green it’s well done as you’re a paid-up member but if it’s pink then you haven’t yet rejoined for 2023 – you’ll have to pay non-member entry fees, you won’t score series Read More …

North West Orienteering Club are holding a score event on Tuesday 27th December 2022 at Roe Valley. Entries close at 6pm on Monday 26th December. More information and the entry link is here.

🏆With Qatar all packed up and top goal scorers Kylian Mbappé & Lionel Messi back home, its now time to focus on who will get the Golden Boot (or compass) in the LVO Score Champs! 📆The LVO Score Championships are planned for the weekend Sat 11 / Sun 12th February (exact time & date tbc). Before this there are two Score Training Activities planned for Sunday 15 Jan at Barnett’s Park and the weekend of Sat 28 / Sun 29 Jan at Crawfordsburn Country Park. 👍Obviously the events can’t take place without volunteers – we have a planner and organiser sorted Read More …

🌟 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 …