The Junior Home International is a competition held between teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales every year, with the location cycling between the four countries. This year, the competetion was in the Brecon Beacons in South Wales, with the individual race on Mynedd Llangatwg and the relay race on Clydach terrace. LVO was well represented with Eoghan Knight(M14), Jill Stephens (W16), Paul Pruzina (M16), James Millar (M16) and Harry Millar (M18) all running for Ireland.
The Individual race area was open mountainside, with very gradual contours so not much to navigate by if you got lost, making relocation very difficult. The map of the area with the M16 course marked is below:
The Relay was again open mountainside, but with much more intricate contour detail - quite like sand dunes, except on a mountain. Very fast running and difficlut navigation made this a very fast race, so even a small mistake cost a lot. The map is below:
The JHIs are a great experience and offer really good competetion that really improves your orienteering by letting you compete on new areas against new people, and LVO juniors should try to aim to be selected for this sort of competition, especially those moving up to M/W14 next year, as it is their first year eligible for selection. Just look at these pictures of us having fun to inspire you...
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| Jill on Individual |
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| Paul on relay first leg |
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| Eoghan on individual |
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| Harry on individual |
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| James at Spectator Control on Individual |
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