SLOW Clued-O – Sheen Common

Wednesday 1 August 2007

Abi & Matthias invite you to a lovely summer evening training event.

Registration, start and finish are on the playing fields at the NE entrance of Sheen Common, off Fife Road in London SW14 (near the junction with The Mall). Map link here. There’s free parking on Fife Road, so hopefully you won’t have too far to walk.

Registration is at 6:45pm, with a mass start for all at 7:15pm

Cost will be £1 per head for the map.

The Sheen Common map is small and 1:5000, but has some nice technical bits on it. Also, it’s totally flat. It’s a bit green in places so while there are lots of paths, we recommend long O-trousers rather than shorts. We’ve done a spot of remapping but some of the vegetation and paths can be pretty confusing so be careful especially at high speed.

There will be only one course – the Clued-O. This works the same way as the board game, except it’s orienteering based – so you have to figure out the “Big Mistake”: which orienteer made it, the type of mistake, and the event at which it was made.

Here’s how it works – bear with me it’s a bit complicated:

· There are 15 controls out in the forest: 5 orienteers, 5 mistake types, 5 events

· You run multiple orienteering loops until you get it right; after each loop you come back to the start

· On each loop you “collect” one orienteer, one mistake type and one event, in that order. The collecting is done by visiting a control and punching in the appropriate box. On each loop you can choose freely which 3 controls you visit as long as they’re in the right order.

· When you get back to the start after each loop, you hand your control card to me, and I will tell you which (if any) of your 3 choices are correct. Until you get all 3 correct and have identified the Big Mistake, you then go out again and try again. Of course, if for example you get the Orienteer correct, then you know which Orienteer control to visit again, and you just need to choose a different mistake type and event.

· Whoever guesses the Big Mistake correctly first wins – so, even if you’re slower than Ed and Nick, you have a good chance of winning!

· In case of someone guessing the Big Mistake on the first go (statistically, a 0.8% chance), I have a second run option for you in store so everyone will get at least half an hour’s worth of running

Come and try out a very different format!

Hope to see you there

Abi & Matthias

PS:
Orienteers are: HEATHER, JAMIE, SIMONE, THIERRY, YVETTE
Mistakes are: bearing, contour, pacing, route choice, one-eighty
Events are: Twin Peaks 2 day, SinS 3 day, JK 4 day, French 5 day, Swiss 6 day

Posted 19 July 2007