Control Club: A New Way to Engage with the Orienteering Community

To use Control Club you need to have a Control user account, it must be set as public and you must enter a name. Your name and club name (if you enter one) allow others to find you and start following you. Your email address is not visible to any other users.

From the profile page you can see who are following you and whom you are following. You can also see all your published runs. You can see similar informatio from people whom you follow.

To start following a runner, enter their profile page from search, reactions or comments and tap Follow. You can also stop following a user by tapping Following.

Navigate to Control Club from the bottom of the app by clicking Control Club. This view shows you the latest published runs from the people you follow.

Feed view shows thumbnail image of the maps, title of the run and description written by runner, as well as duration, distance and course length and speed.

You can open the run to see the details of the execution. If you are a Total Control subscriber, you can see the full details of the execution: Pace, heart rate, control point interval times and so on. Also you can compare that run to your own on the same map. If you are not yet a Total Control subscriber, now is a perfect time to subscribe!

In the feed view you can also see the amount of comments and reactions a particular run has been given.

Enter search by clicking the search user icon at the top right corner of the Control Club Feed view. You can search other users by their name or club name.

By tapping a user in the search result, you can enter user profile and start following the user.

By default we show most followed users in the search view.

You select what runs you want to post to Control Club. After you have calibrated your run, you are prompted to publish the run to Control Club, but you can also do it later. You can post a run to Control Club in few ways:

1. From Course view click share button and then Post to Control Club
2. In Control Club feed view, click + Post. Then select course you want to post to Control Club.
3. On iOS: From Course list view press and hold the course thumbnail, select Share and then Post to Control Club

When posting a the course you can edit the existing map name. You can enter also a description of the run (Total Control feature). When ready, tap Post from the top right corner.

If you need to update the post, for example to fix a typo in description, you can edit the post by tapping the post menu and selecting Edit post. It is also possible to delete the post from the same menu by clicking Remove post.

You can react to runs with emojis or by comments. We provide a fixed set of emojis to select from. You can see all reactions and comments either tapping the comment button or from the post menu (top-right corner of the run) by selecting Reactions and Comments.

You can read other users’ comments and add your comments. Just tap write a comment field at the bottom of Comments-view and enter your comment and tap Send. To write comments you need Total Control subscription.

You can delete your own comments tap the comment menu next to your comment and select Remove.

With Control Club we also introduce a much easier way to compare routes with fellow runners. When you open a course from Control Club and you have run on the same area, you can select a route to compare with by tapping the Compare routes button.

After you select the course you want to compare with, a route comparison view is opened. You can zoom in on the map or view the split times and select a leg to compare from the split time view.

What is the most exciting thing is that since the 2.0 release, the route comparison is now also available on Android! Currently only supporting the overall map view and not split times, but we are working on it.

Compare routes is a Total Control feature. Like said, now is the perfect time of getting it! There is the 2-week free trial as well if you are still hesitating. Free to cancel & come back anytime.