Mid and East Antrim BC have partnered with Lagan Valley Orienteers to celebrate Love Parks Week! We have a mini-series of 3 events across the week exploring 3 of the beautiful green spaces MEA has to offer. At each event you will receive a limited-edition sticker of that place, specially designed by @SashaFergArt for these events! Collect all 3! Orienteering is about finding your way around a course between checkpoints using a map. The beauty of this is that there is something to suit everyone, and you can complete it in your own time and at your own pace. The Read More …

Although July is traditionally a rest month for organised Orienteering activity, hopefully you are able to get out and enjoy a good hill run or a walk through the forest. With the good weather, you will know to keep well hydrated and to cover up from the sun but have you thought about protecting yourself from ticks? Although not as active in the middle of summer, they are can be picked up all year round, especially in grassy areas where there is grazing. You are not likely to feel them bite into you, and burying their little heads. These little Read More …

This weekend LVO put on another really enjoyable festival of orienteering at Tollymore, thanks to all the fantastic people who helped out in many ways (and no thanks to the windy and wet conditions 🌨🌪). The whole weekend was expertly organised and coordinated by Gordon Stephens, with three events and the general organisation of camping and BBQ he had his hands full, or should I say hand, as he was doing it all with one arm in a cast! 💪 👏 A special mention must go to Mark Pruzina who like an iceberg is super cool and what you see Read More …

Lots of tables updated after the week’s events: Public>NISeries>NISeries2022.pdf After 4 events folk are starting to show with the required number of scores against their name. Don’t forget it’s 4 out of 7 needed to qualify so plan your autumn programme accordingly! Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf The first drop off of an old event for some time so some folk may have lost or dropped their standard; others have consolidated well. Public>hCOW>hCOW2022>Event7.pdf The Castlewellan results show some large fluctuations but also show how the calculations are able to deal with the different terrains being encountered. >Series Table.pdf The combined scores and Read More …

It was great to see us all studying are maps so hard at University yesterday evening. It was great to have some lovely weather after a couple of damp ones. 🚶‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ 69 people took part, 31 of whom were juniors from clubs, schools or part of a family unit. 👏👏👏 Special thanks go to joint planners/organisers Richard Hetherington and Paul Daniels. Other super volunteers who made the event a success were, Wilbert Hollinger who mentored Richard and Paul through there first event. Ric Gamble who helped set up & take down alongside Richard McCourt, Alan Gartside for printing the maps Read More …

Don’t let the UUJ WEE distract you from entering this weekends events. The Deadline for entry is midnight Wednesday. So don’t delay! Friday Evening: Click here for info and entry for Urban event in Dundrum. Saturday: Click here for info and entry for NICS event in Castlewellan and BBQ at Tollymore. Sunday: Tollymore Score, is entry on the day.

Thank you to the dozen orienteers who have already completed this short 5-10 min survey. Please can I encourage you all all to complete this. If we are able to get about 100 respondents then we can look at being able to pull out data specific to Orienteering which would hopefully be very useful. Use the QR code below or click here to take part.

At “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2022” you’ll find the hCOW results for Carnfunnock in “WEE7.pdf” showing things settling down with a variance of only 3secs/km. In “WEE Series Table.pdf” you’ll find your points score and your history of handicap variations. The table is organised in total points order (lowest first) with those having achieved 6 counting scores at the top of the list. This shows that, once again, Metronomic Mark (Pruzina) is leading the way. Please note that, with no WEE events appearing in any fixture list and no August WEE events resourced in the Volunteers list, it might be that the number Read More …

Great job everyone who participated in a fantastic evenings fun running up and down the slopes of in Carnfunnock Country Park. Again the weather was playing games with us, with most of us getting a bit damp, along with a few soggy maps for those who risked not taking a bag 🌧🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🌧💪 🚶‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ 57 people took part, 28 of whom were juniors from both clubs and schools. Great to see all the young people enjoying getting lost like the best of us! 👏👏👏 Special thanks go to planner Daniel Vasey and organiser Richard Vasey. Other super volunteers who made the Read More …

If you missed the midnight on Sunday cut off for online entries, don’t panic, you can enter on the evening – just come along to registration – we will be working out of the back of a car, likely a silver Octavia. Entries on Day (EOD) will be £8 for an adult and £4 for a Junior for both members and non-members. Weather looks promising, so come along and be part of the fun in CarnFUNnock! 😀 For all the info click on: WEE7 – Carnfunnock Country Park – Lagan Valley Orienteers (lvo.org.uk)