📆 May has nearly passed and hopefully you are in full swing with the WEE Series. If not, no problem, in June we have lots more to choose from! 😃 The WEE Series continues in June with a brand new venue mixed with some old favourites in the Newtownabbey/Co Antrim area. 👏 New planners and organisers as well – so come along and see what challenges fresh eyes will offer 👀. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Throw in an U13 Ballymena Schools League doing the Short courses this month and we have a fun busy month of Orienteering ahead! 💻 Pre enter by the Read More …

As an experiment, we are leaving online entries open until the night of the event. So, if you would like a run *please* enter now at https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=9905. It makes life an awful lot simpler for the Organiser to just hand out a dibber, rather than gather up all the safety and contact information and laboriously enter it onto the computer. Much faster for those who are pre-entered and just collecting a dibber too. If you are pre-entered and have your own dibber, just go straight to the Start in front of the Woodlands café. Other details see https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/wee4-belfast-park-tbc/ See you Read More …

Join us on 24th-26th June for our 13th Tollymore Weekend. Orienteering! Food! Craic! Camping! Midges! A French Boule (if you know, you know). As always, we are open to club members, as well as members of other O clubs and non-members too. Come join the fun. Entries open now! Please share with your friends. Click here to enter –> https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/tollymore-festival-of-orienteering-2022-o/

Due to the membership renewal of John Crozier (welcome back, John!) and his appearance at WEE2&3 the handicaps after WEE3 have altered by a few secs/km from those published on Thursday. There has also been a ripple effect on the scoring with Anastasia Mahlych still leading on 13 points followed by Billy Reed on 15 and Mark Pruzina and Kenny Weir on 17. Don’t forget that hCOW is a regularity test so keep those mistakes at bay (or keep making the same ones each time!).

Thanks to all the participants for coming to the event, those who helped take in controls, Alan G for the map printing, Daphne for planning, Fred for organising, Cecil for coordinating and wrestling with the technology and Mark P for digging Cecil out when technology had him pinned to the floor. Routegadget: https://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#463 (note that you can get a Splitsbrowser window by clicking on the first icon to the right of the blue bar) WinSplits http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=82009

The hCOW outcomes from WEE3 at Barnett Demesne can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2022”. With three events gone and therefore with some folk having 2 scores it’s newcomer (welcome!) Anastasia Mahlych leading with 13 followed closely by old-stagers Mark Pruzina and Billy Reed on 14. Until the August fixtures are determined the number of counting scores can’t be finalised but it will probably be about 7 so you need to get results posted asap. An event variance of -56 secs/km shows things are getting faster, possibly due to the flat, therefore speedy(!), legs across the University playing fields.

😬 Grit your teeth, with only one week to go in the May league, we are in for a tight finish. Only 4 points separate the top three position in both the Long and Short courses. Last month I made a few errors with my sums, so should all be fixed now. The high scores means I need more beads for my abacus. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Long Course: Well done to the 21 people who have participated at all three venues this month, fantastic effort! There has been some movement at the top. Presently in the top six positions are, Anastasia Mahlych 60 Read More …

🖐Fermanagh Orienteers are inviting us to enjoy some excellent courses in the next Colour Series event. ⚪🟡🟠🟢🔵🟤 8 differently coloured courses to choose from, all ages and abilities catered for, courses for newcomers all the way up to the most experienced runner. NICS3 is taking place at Florencecourt on Saturday 28 May. 📢The deadline for online entry is this Sunday (22 May). Don’t miss out enter here now! 📝For more information visit: NI Colour Series 3 Florencecourt – Fermanagh Orienteers (wordpress.com)

👀 Check out Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council’s piece on the opening of the new Permanent Orienteering Courses on the updated map: Royal Hillsborough welcomes Scandinavian orienteers for outdoor adventure! (lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk) 🎥 LCCC also posted this short video on Facebook 🟡🟠🟢 There are three different courses to choose from of varying lengths and degree of challenge. 🏃‍♀️🌲🚶‍♂️ If you haven’t yet had the chance to explore Hillsborough Forest yourself, you can get more info and download a map here: Hillsborough Forest – Go Orienteering

👏 Thanks to all three NI clubs there continues to be many more O-events to enjoy this May/June. 👍 At the weekend Fermo welcomed and entertained us with fun, interesting and challenging NI Sprint and Middle Distance Championship courses. Well done to all LVOers wo made the trip west and especially to the following for their podium (NI positions) making runs. NI Sprint Champs: 🥇🥈🥉 W Open Aine McCann and Olivia Baxter. W40+ Moire O’Sullivan and Sarah Gamble. W55+ Stephanie Pruzina and Heather Cairns. W65+ Helen Baxter, Ann Savage and Barbara Foley-Fisher. W16 Anastasia Mahlych MOpen Chris Colwell, George Savell Read More …