EARN points at the ERNE FERMO invite you to the first NI Urban event of 2024 at Enniskillen on 28th April. Entries open SiEntries Entries close Wednesday 24th April For more info visit the FERMO website The post NI Urban League #1 appeared first on NI Orienteering Association ..read more

The closing date for two important events is this Sunday 14 April: The second NI Colour Series of the 2024 to be held at Drum Manor Forest Park on Saturday 20 April. All the entry details are on the NWOC website. The Irish Orienteering Championships is held annually over the May bank holiday weekend by Orienteering Ireland in cooperation with NI Orienteering. In 2025 the event will be held in Northern Ireland with North West Orienteering as the lead club, but this years’s event takes place in Co Kildare, Co Galway and Co Roscommon. All the details are on the Irish Orienteering Championships ..read more

We are off to the beautiful Drum Manor on Saturday 20 April for the second outing of the 2024 NI Colour Series, hosted by North West Orienteering Club. Centrally placed near Cookstown, this Forest Park has something for everyone including a wildfowl lake, children’s playground, parkland and forest and all in the spring bluebell season. Remember that there will be 8 colour coded courses on offer with a course suitable for all from complete beginner to experienced orienteers. All the details are on the event page on the NWOC website. Entries are now open, to close on Sunday 14 April Remember tha ..read more

“Real Orienteering” was how the final Colour Series event of the year was described by one competitor after a tough and slithery run through mud and over bare rock, but also through beautiful beach wood with the leaf fall making the navigations by paths rather difficult in places. There was an excellent turnout of 99 enjoying the beautiful autumnal day after a period of heavy rain. Regrettably control 152 had been stolen, which was leg 14 on Brown, 9 on Blue and 5 on Green, so the legs to and from that control have been voided and removed from the results to be published shortly. The Results ..read more

Marshals on car park duty had perhaps the worst experience at Drumkeeragh for the first Colour Series event of 2024. With driving rain sweeping across the area, conditions did become more bearable once in the forest. Especially given the harsh conditions, there was an excellent turnout of just over 100 competitors. The results are at  Results & Fixtures>Results>2024 Results including Routegadget. Do record your route. Thanks to Olivia Baxter for planning challening courses in this compace byt technical forest, controlled by Helen Baxter. Joe McClure was on top of his role as org ..read more

Entries are open for the first NI Colour Series event of the year at Drumkeeragh, Co Down on Saturday 16 March. Benefitting from a excellent map used last year for the British Middle Distance Championships, this event has a course for all levels of experience and fitness. Check out the guide to colour coded courses. All the details are on the event page on the LVO website ..read more

Competitors faced challenging courses on a wintry Slieve Croob at the postponed 2023 NI Long Distance Championships on Saturday 2 March 2024. Thanks to LVO and planner Steph Pruzina, controller Greg McCann and organiser Stephen Knight for a great event. The results with full analysis are at Results & Fixtures>Results>2023 Results (and 2024 Results). As this was the postponed championships from 2023, there will be another opportunity to run long distance championships courses later this year at Gortin Glen on Saturday 5 October. Congratulations to our 2023 NI Long Distance Champions ..read more

You possibly thought that you had already missed the 2023 NI Long Distance Champs? No you haven’t as it was postponed from last Autumn until Saturday 2 March to be held on Slieve Croob, Co Down. But you are likely to miss out as entries close on Sunday 25 February. All the details are on the event page on the LVO website. Do note in particular, to be competitive you must enter as your 2023 class (or “run up”). Remember you change classes on 1 January, not on your birthday. This will affect you if you have just changed classes this year, ie were born in 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 20 ..read more

Despite an atrocious weather forecast of heavy rain for Saturday 17 February, North West Orienteering Club managed to time both the 2024 NI Score Champs and the NI Night Champs in dry weather. The Score competition used the part wooded and part parkland area of St Columb’s Park as well as the adjoining contrasting urban area of Ebrington Square, giving challenging courses with the added complication of a map flip. This added to the complexity of the competition as there was a judgement to be made as to when how many controls to collect on part 1 before moving on to part 2. Thanks to ..read more

Despite an atrocious weather forecast of heavy rain for Saturday 17 February, North West Orienteering Club managed to time both the 2024 NI Score Champs and the NI Night Champs in dry weather. The Score competition used the part wooded and part parkland area of St Columb’s Park as well as the adjoining contrasting urban area of Ebrington Square, giving challenging courses with the added complication of a map flip. This added to the complexity of the competition as there was a judgement to be made as to when how many controls to collect on part 1 before moving on to part 2. Thanks to ..read more