NIOA Championships
Enter Now! Entries close on Sunday 7th October, see here. Before that, this Saturday 6th October is a NI Colour Series at Gortin Glen, see here.
Junior Inter Regional Orienteering Championship 2018
Expectations for JIRC Hannah McMullen (w14 @ 1st JIRCs): ‘Extremely hard and I would struggle.’ Meadow McCauley (w16 @ 3rd JIRC): ‘I felt I had improved over the year and wanted to demonstrate this.’ Rachel Collins (w18 @ 4th JIRC): ‘I was excited for the super friendly competition and wanted to have a clean and injury free enjoyable race.’ Day 1 – Chatsworth House Thoughts Hannah ‘The place was pretty and the weather was fab. The race was challenging but not ridiculous and I was pleased with my run! Dinner was good and breakfast was perfect.’ Hannah finished a fantastic 18th place-keep Read More …
Car Pool to Gortin
Share transport costs by joining the car pool to Gortin on Saturday 6 October. Meet at M1 Junction 9 (Moira), just on the Moira side of the junction close to the bus stop. There is plenty of parking available.Just turn up by 9:30 to join in.
Get Ready for Sporteering
Sporteering is coming soon to Wednesday Evening Skills Training! You will need an Andriod or Iphone with GPS locating function. Since you will need to carry your phone, you might like to acquire an armband carrier. Make sure you can still touch the screen when the phone is in the carrier. To prepare then please go to the Play Store or App Store as appropriate. Search for and download the “Sporteering” app. Then open the app and create and account for yourself. It’s pretty straightforward but there is help here  http://www.sporteering.com/howto/ Once you have done that you are all set to Read More …
Colour Standards/Autumn Trophy standings
These tables, following the event at Slieve Garron, are to be found in the Public Folders “Colour Standards” and “Club Colour Series” respectively. With one more AT event (Divis) still to come we have three winners already – congratulations to Cahal Power (yellow junior men), Billy Reed (green senior men) and chairman Stephanie Pruzina (green senior women) – Steph can now plan the Divis courses with a light heart!
🍂Autumn Workshops🍂
Check out the NI Orienteering website for all the info on the upcoming series of Autumn Workshops 🙂 Beat The Planner – NI Autumn Workshop Series
Final Details are Available for Autumn Trophy 2 at Slieve Garron
Final details are available on the LVO website for Autumn Trophy 2 at Slieve Garron. There have been some changes from the provisional details. There is an important note in the “fences” section for the green course. Final course lengths, climb and control numbers are up. Parking and social information has been added. Hope to see you there – one of the most beautiful spots in County Down. Geoffrey (planner), Aileen (organiser), Michael (controller)
NISeries & Colour Standards tables updated
The NISeries tables following the Garvagh event and the Colour Standards table following Kilbroney can be found in their respective Public Folders (the NISeries tables are also available on the NIOA website).
Event Publicity Posters
Attention: event organisers/controllers/planners please help yourself to orienteering event publicity posters, aiming to publicise events. Pick up A number of copies printed on ‘fancy’ paper can be collected from the MOO from the 9th September. Alternatively, you may wish to print your own by downloading a copy here. If printing at home it may be an idea to use poly pockets or laminate the posters if placing outside. Write up Fill in the blank boxes. Location: Name of venue. Date/Time: e.g. Include date, registration opening time, start window and course closure time. Further Information: This could include a variety of things e.g. car-park Read More …
WEE Series Prizewinners
Massive thanks to everyone involved in WEE Series 2018. Event officials, on-the-night volunteers, behind-the-scenes folk, and of course all our lovely participants. Personally, I had a blast and I didn’t even run a single one! See you at running training this Wednesday (Malone RFC), Explorers this Saturday (Valley V36) or Kilbroney this Sunday (Autumn Trophy event). Non members welcome to come along to all of these and we’d love to see new faces trying out weekend orienteering. Here are your prizewinners; if your name is in italics then come claim your prize off me (Susan) and please expect cheesy photo Read More …