Helen Baxter from LVO set up some orienteering training last night at Hillsborough Forest. Nine runners turned up for the informal session between the dark clouds and rumblings of thunder, but luckily it managed to stay dry for us. The training involved a Norwegian map memory course.
This is an exercise in which you have to [read more...]
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This photo is just too good not to share with everyone. It is Andrea from the BikeBock Belles climbing up the ‘Windy Gap’ side of Slieve Bearnagh in the Mourne Mountains. My plans for the Bank Holiday weekend were cut short when the Achill Mountain Marathon was cancelled a few weeks back. I was looking forward to the event and fingers crossed it will be back on for 2011. However, the small problem of ‘what to do’ over the weekend quickly became an issue. The prospect [read more...] Usually I have to work on St Paddy Day, but a chance to try a MTB dulathon was too much of a temptation and I quickly booked the day off when I first heard about it. The MTB dulathon was the first of a series of events planned by the University of Ulster Coleraine. They [read more...] The LVO WENT series finished last week so it was good news when I heard that the Tollymore Mountain Centre was to host a ‘one-off’ orienteering event for Wednesday evening. It was another cold night and the threat of snow was constantly in the air, but that did not put off the dozen or so [read more...] Two local orienteering events on the same day – you can’t ask for better than that. The sun was even shining and though it was still very cold, it was a great day to go running and a perfect excuse to take a half day off work. The Army were holding their 10th round of [read more...] I had a bit of a lazy weekend. Not to say I didn’t try to do something active. It was just one of the few days every year that I don’t feel guilty hanging around the house on Saturday & Sunday afternoon. My excuse – The Six Nations rugby was on and it was nice [read more...] Sunday’s orienteering event was the 9th round of the BAOC NI ML (Military League). The event also incorporated the QUOTC Championships. Even though it was an NI ML event, entries were open to anyone – your result simply didn’t count towards the league. I wasn’t expecting to get much done on Sunday. There was another orienteering event in Belvoir forest, but I wasn’t sure if I could make it due to Scott’s football training at Newforge. However, with the news on Saturday that all the footy training was cancelled for Sunday, I quickly reorganised my Sunday morning and [read more...] It’s a long old drive from Bangor down to Castlewellan, especially straight after stressful day at work [if only ]. Two hours travelling for a 45 minute run does not equate as being ‘well worth the trip’, but then again if you thought like that all the time would you ever leave your TV [read more...] |
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