Orienteering this Christmas

Fear not, there’s orienteering over Christmas with the traditional event at Three Rock on Stephens Day and events on the 27th at Ballincollig Regional Park and Rochestown Woods.

Seasons greetings from all at the IOA!  See you in the New Year!

Mon 26 Dec, Three Rock Wood

Tue 27 Dec, Ballincollig Regional Park

Tue 27 Dec, Rochestown Woods

Events this Sunday the 11th December

These are the events for this Sunday the 11th of December.

In addition to the registered events 3ROC are having an informal event to celebrate 40 years of the club, see below:

In common with GEN and SET, 3ROC are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the club this year. We are having a small orienteering excercise (no signposts, no money, just a few flags and a run in the forest) at 11.30 on Sunday 11th December at Ticknock.  While it’s primarily aimed at 3ROC members, everyone is welcome to come along and try some old-style orienteering with a few twists.  This is not an official fixture, just a casual get-together, but you’re welcome to join us on Sunday morning.
3ROC members will be having a function afterwards.

All the events have courses suitable for beginners.

Any questions email: comms@orienteering.ie

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Sun 11 Dec, Lough Key Forest Park

Sun 11 Dec, Kilworth Camp

Sun 11 Dec, Mount Desert Wood

World Orienteering Day 2017

The World Orienteering Day offers a great possibility to promote our lovely sport! Therefore, on Wednesday May 24^th 2017, we would like to see people of all ages taking part in some sort of Orienteering event.

On Wednesday May 11^th 2016, the first ever World Orienteering Day took place all over the world. It proved to be a great success, with more than 250 000 participants all around the world taking part in an orienteering event.

After having finalised the results, the total of participation in the first ever World Orienteering Day stands at 252 927 participants at 2013 locations in 81 countries and territories.

From South Africa to Hong Kong, from Greenland to New Caledonia, from Ecuador to Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of youngsters participated in World Orienteering Day. Following the idea “Think globally, act locally”, people all over the world took part in locally organised orienteering events, and celebrated the biggest world-wide orienteering event ever.

Our Vision 2018

500 000 participants – 5000 locations – 100 countries

The IOF’s goals regarding the organisation of this annual event are as follows:

• Increasing the visibility and accessibility of orienteering to young people
• Increasing the number of participants both in the schools’ activities as well and in the clubs’ activities in all countries of National Federations, and to get more new countries to take part in orienteering
• Helping teachers to implement orienteering in a fun and educational way by providing schools with materials such as maps, orienteering exercises and equipment

www.worldorienteeringday.com
The updated website is now ready for registration.

Words from IOF President Leho Haldna:
“It is time to look ahead to World Orienteering Day 2017. Following such a success as the first year of the project can be hard, but we should not be daunted by this. In 2016, we showed the world just how much passion and initiative can be found in orienteers all over the world, and in 2017 we have the chance to prove it again, and share orienteering with even more people. I invite all volunteers and activists in orienteering to support World Orienteering Day 2017 by organising events near their home. All events, even the smallest ones, are extremely valuable to reach our target: a continued global success.”

Now is the time to start planning events for 2017, not just local events, but schools events too.

Any questions about promoting events for the day contact comms@orienteering.ie

– IOA Executive.

Events this coming weekend

These are the events this coming weekend ending the 4th of December.

Fancy trying some Sprint-O.  UCDO are running a sprint event on Saturday in Belfield Campus.  There are two courses on offer, a short and long.  Fast paced and exhilarating, sprint-O tests navigation and running in relatively short distances.  Sprint Orienteering is suitable both for beginners and the advanced orienteer.

Then on Sunday there there are two events around the country, one on the Curragh that also doubles up as the Irish Orienteering Student Championships and one in Ballyannon Wood in Cork.  Both events have courses suitable for beginners.  If you ask at registration someone will help you.

Any questions email comms@orienteering.ie

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Sat 3 Dec, University College Dublin; Belfield

Sun 4 Dec, Curragh East

Sun 4 Dec, Ballyannon Wood