🏆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 …

WENT on Wednesday 23 November goes back to Ground in Lisburn. Enjoy a 45 minute urban score using MapRun6 or MapRunG on a different part of the city than last time. All the details are in the event page on the LVO website. Sufficient maps are printed and the forecast looks reasonable. Do come along!

There are some extra maps printed for the Lisburn West event, so if you didn’t get around to pre-enter just come along and pay on the day at non-member rates. Exact change please! All the details are on the event page.

The pre-entry closing date for the Urban League event in Lisburn on Sunday afternoon 20 November is on Friday 18 November. Entries are on SI Entries with full detail on the event page on the LVO website. For the last NI Colour Series event of the year at Learmount Wood on Saturday 26 November, the closing date is Sunday 20 November. Entries again at SI entries with full details on the event page on the NWOC website.

These can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then:- “Club Colour Series>2022AutumnTrophy.pdf”. The final places are in! It was best (lowest) two scores over the three events to count, with event organisers getting points equivalent to their best in the other two rounds. “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. With one colour event left (Learmount NISeries7) you need to get your entry in for your target colour. “hCOW>hCOW2022>” then:- “Event12.pdf”. The very negative event variance shows that, unlike Castlearchdale the week before, the many new gravel paths allowed folk to stay out of the tricky vegetation for much of the time. “Series Table.pdf”. Moiré Read More …

Various tables have been updated after last Saturday’s NISeries event. You can find them at “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then – “NISeries>NISeries2022.pdf”. With one event to go there’s still plenty to play for in many of the classes. Congratulations to Jenny Orr for clinching the Orange Women title. Although Steven Linton has got a full house in the Brown Men class there is a mathematical (but highly improbable) possibility that he may not win; can you work it out? “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. Some activity here because of losing year-old results. With 2 colour events remaining this year you need to check your Read More …

This week’s Wednesday Evening Night Training will be in Lisburn, meeting at the Ground cafe at 7.15pm. All the details you need to know are on the event page. Note particularly that MapRun6 or MapRunG is being used, so especially if you have never used this before do get this set up before you come. Also remember Hi-Viz clothing and a head torch. Under 16s are very welcome, but must be accompanied by an adult.