Cairn Wood Round Up

Peter races in to the finish

Donovan having fun

The Junior Squad, and a lot of adults, turned up to Cairn Wood for some O trainining. This started with a 2 or 3 Km time trail run, a lot of which was up hill! After this the lesson focused in on 'map simplification'. Athletes were given a map with some of the detail removed, that is simplified. They had to use handrails, attack points and catching features to navigate to the control.

The squad at the end

The last part of the event was a memory test. Juniors took part first in a memory star course. They got time to read the route to a control site and then setting off with out the map they had to locate the control before returning to the start and then trying a new control.

Cake for the birthday girl

The final challenge was to undertake an entire loop of 6 or 7 controls using map memory. They had to read the first leg on the map, memorise it and then set off to find the control. At each control they would find a map of the next section of the course.

An example of the map memory session

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3 Days of O at the LegenDerry O Festival

Juniors from the club, and from across Ireland, took part in 3 days of orienteering in Derry/Londonderry over the St Patrick's Weekend. The event started with a Middle Distance race in Binevenagh Forest on the Saturday. Sunday started with a sprint race in the city centre around the walls, then a sprint race around St Columb's Park before a final sprint race at the Ulster University campus in Coleraine. MOnday was back to St Columb's park for a final sprint race.

Ready for the start at Binevenagh

At the finish of Binevenagh

Waiting for a Toastie

Part of the middle distance course

Cross the Peace Bridge on day 2

Urban Sprint start

St Columb's Park sprint

University of Ulster Sprint Start

Junior Technical Training 23 Mar Cairn Wood

Visit the Training Page for the details abut the next junior training session on the 23 Mar. Looking forward to seeing you all then.

Pacing and Judging Distance

The juniors had the chance to confirm their paces over 100m at the Spring Cup race on the 1 March. This will be a great help at the start of the season.  The results are:

Name	Walking on the flat	Run on the flat	Walk downhill	Walk up hill	Run downhill	Run up hill
Donovan	73	44	67	77	39	58
Andrew	64	53	58	66	42	66
Ben	71	58	68	70	40	60
Ellen	65	35	60	62	35	46
Matthew	65	34	56	62	28	39
Peter R	74	35	63	69	36	50