❄So, snow says no to tomorrow’s O at Slieve Garron. Whilst our organiser, planner and controller do their best to reschedule this event 👍 here are three ideas you can do to get over your disappointment: 1️⃣ Lie down in your back garden (or even better your neighbours) and make a snow angel 🧚‍♂️ 2️⃣ Sit down at your window with a cup of hot chocolate in your hands and watch some eejit make a snow angel ☕ 3️⃣ Enter the next Orienteering event on the calendar: Woodburn, next Saturday (18 March). 🏃‍♂️ ⏰ Don’t take too long over making Read More …

From Aileen, Richard & Susan Sorry folks, too snowy, tomorrow’s event on Slieve Garron is postponed. No O. Or Snow-O, if you will. We very much hope to reschedule, and will update soon as we can. We will re-open entries when that’s all set up, and all of tomorrow’s participants will receive an email in due course. Thanks to all the volunteers who had signed up to help us, and to the landowners for their ongoing support of our adventures. Meanwhile, our next O is Woodburn on Saturday 18th March. Entries now open 🙂 Photo credit: Carolyn Black LVO (local Read More …

The LVO AGM will be held online again this year on Thursday 30 March at 7.30pm. 📑Before we meet, we plan to send out the Financial report (thanks to Harry Bell our Treasurer and Alan Gartside who is doing the auditing of the accounts) and my Chairperson’s report. This will allow you time to reflect and maybe prompt questions. We may also have a report on the great stuff Steph is doing with our Juniors and also from Juls with all the Development work which goes on all year. 🤸‍♀️There has been lots happening the past year to report on. Read More …

The hCOW tables, following NISeries1 at Pomeroy, are now available at: “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2023” The tables comprise “Event1.pdf”, showing the performance against handicap, “hCOW Table.pdf” showing the regularity points gained for running true to your handicap, and “Regatta Table.pdf” showing the points gained by improving on your handicap (all non attendees score 38 points). The fewer points scored the better your placing.

The Colour Standards table has been updated with the results from NISeries1 at Pomeroy. It can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”

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 …