🌈 Seven excellent colour courses are now all planned and Lagan Valley Orienteers are ready to welcome you to the 4th NI Colour event of the year at Kilbroney on Saturday 30 October – see LVO fixtures for more information. 🚗 Parking will up up at the highest car park. 🌲 Yellow and Orange starts and courses are situated in the Cloughmore area of the forest and will use a 1:5000 scale map. 🌄 Other courses will start at the top of the forest zig-zags (allow 20-25mins walk) and have controls on the open hill using a 1:10000 map – Read More …

Lady Dixon Park 7th, 14th, 28th November and 5th December 14:00 – 15:30 Just £20 for all 4 sessions This programme is designed for young people to experience orienteering for the first time! If you love running and exploring this is for you! All info below For enquiries email Juls on rdo@niorienteering.org.uk

Everyone is welcome to this event; we would especially like to see some of our October Outdoors participants in person this year! Come and say hello, and explore the Dee with a new course 😊 Saturday 23 October Starts anytime from 1pm-2pm from The Commons Carpark, Donaghadee BT21 0JB Courses close at 3:30pm Approx. 3.5km long (Similar to October Outdoors standard and length) £3 per map (£2 for members) Children should be accompanied by an adult on the course. Adventures in the salty air, the best way to spend your Saturday! To book a map email rdo@niorienteering.org.uk with your name Read More …

Whilst working with the hCOW spreadsheet to produce a series table, I realised that I hadn’t updated the Colour Standards table with Autumn Event results. That omission has now been reversed and the updated table is now available to view. On the Green course many of you who fell into the Baxter black hole of Hillsborough (I’ve looked at Routegadget!) may have felt that you will have missed a Green standard. However, because there was no Brown or Blue course available the standard time is not that of the winner; I use my skill and judgement to decide (i.e. guess!) Read More …

Twenty nine LVO members made the journey just over the border into the Cooleys on Sunday 3rd October to Carnawaddy for the Leinster 2020/2021 Championships. Nice conditions made for good running in a great setting and LVO competed well against the other Irish clubs. Six class wins were recorded for LVO members: Oliver O’Kane in M16 Susan Lambe in W40 Stephanie Pruzina in W55 Lyle Fleming in M55 Wilbert Hollinger in M70  and Richard McCourt in M75 Other notable results, Fiona Austin was second in W40 as was Sarah Gamble in W45 and Heather Cairns came third in W55. Full Read More …

🍁 Sunday 10th October 🍁 Starts between 11am and Midday 🍁Tollymore Forest (main car park – £5 per car entry) 2 courses on offer ✌🏼 🟠Orange ~2km 🟢Light Green ~ 4km ☑️For those of you new to O, this is a perfect chance to get out into the forest with a map and give it a gO! ☑️For all our Tollymore Summer gang, we are at the other end of the forest with this one so get ready! ☑️For our club members, a nice wee training run to start your Sunday.  To book your map just email Juls with your Read More …

LVO have some great Orienteering Activities and Events that you can pack in before the end of this year! These activities are open to everyone, so why not invite someone new along to join in! It might help motivate us as the longer nights draw in. 🧭🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️For starters, look out for the ‘Come and Try’ O activities at Tollymore on Sun 10 October and Donaghadee on Sat 23 October. Perfect for newcomers and families who want to spice up their outdoor adventures (Orange / Light Green courses). 🧭🌲 Next up is the Colour Series event at Rostrevor/Kilbroney Forest Park on Read More …

A look at Winsplits and Routegadget shows how many folk suffered on Sunday from the “Bermuda Triangle” syndrome that is Hillsborough Forest, myself included. This is backed up by the hCOW results showing an enormous variation in folks’ variance with only 6 (me again!) out of the 32 finishers having a positive variance i.e. going slower than handicap. The negative event variance of 2mins11secs shows that some of you struck lucky among the bombholes and had a relatively clean run. In my last post I said that the series would be calculated on your best 4 results from the 7 Read More …

Well done to all those who took part on the devilishly difficult courses which Philip Baxter kindly laid on for us on Sunday. It was great to see 96 competitors running round Hillsborough Forest, with LVO club members competing for the Autumn Trophy. Autumn Trophy Winners – Green Course Seniors, Olivia Baxter and Billy Reed. Green Course Junior, Peter Reed 🥇 Short Green, Richard McCourt 🥇 Orange, James Ewart and Chloe Grattan 🥇 Yellow, Marcus Smith 🥇 Thanks again to Philip for testing us round a forest some of thought we knew better and to the fantastic volunteers who helped Read More …

With another 3, possibly 4, colour events in the fixture list it will be possible to have both a series (best 4 results to count) and a championship (last colour event of the year, hopefully FermO’s NISeries6 event). Don’t forget that hCOW is about consistency, not speed, so everyone has a chance to shine.