Before we get stuck into another wee month of WEE competition – congratulations to all the May WEE winners: Long Course: 🥇1st Place Junior – Anastasia Mahlych. 1st Place Senior Female – Olivia Baxter. 1st Place Senior Male – Billy Reed. 🥈2nd Place Junior – James Ewart. 2nd Place Female – Chloe Reed. 2nd Place Male – Simon Reeve. 🥉3rd Place Junior – Sam Graham. 3rd Place Female – Jane Wilson. 3rd Place Male – Chris Colwell. Short Course: 🥇1st Place Junior – Ruby Gardiner. 1st Place Senior Female – Sonia Wallace. 1st Place Senior Male – Richard McCourt. 🥈2nd Read More …

For those members who recently ordered kit, this notice is for you. Philip Baxter will have the LVO clothing order for you to collect on Saturday in Fermanagh or on Wednesday at the Ballymena Academy WEE. 💷The bill has been paid by LVO and items ordered will be handed over on production of cash, cheque made out to Lagan Valley Orienteers or bank transfer made to LVO. Anyone wishing to pay by bank transfer should email Philip on treasurer@niorienteering.org.uk for the bank details. If you think you are expecting kit (O top or kagoule; not enough orders yet for vests, Read More …

Check out our very own Anastasia and her interview in the latest British Orienteering News article.

Go to “Resources>OneDrive Public>hCOW>hCOW2022” to see the scores and handicap adjustments arising from WEE4. Amongst the 3 times scorers it’s now Billy Reed leading with 20 points, then Anastasia Mahlych with 26 and, keeping it in the family, Chloe Reed with 30. Following next week’s event there will be a series table showing your scores to date and the variation in your handicap allowing you to look back on your performances (and hopefully learn from them!).

📆 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.