Results

Recap

It was a bit chilly in the morning at around 43 degrees and cloudy but still a real good day to get outside for some physical activity and some map navigation fun!

The event was a new venue on a brand-new map produced by Jonathan Boyer and Bob Boltz.

We offered up a full set of courses with a special course for Runners, all designed and set by Jonathan Boyer. An exceptional job well done by Jonathan for creating and producing a new venue for NEOOC.

We had 81 preregistered participants and we were accepting walk up registrations on the day of event, so we were ready for a good turn out. We ended up having 102 Orienteers going out to enjoy the park in groups and as solo runners. Thank you to all who particpated!

Mike Avery and Jay Smink were outstanding at running registration, check in and finishing later for the busy crowd. With the overwhelming walk up response, we actually ran out of maps, so special thanks to Jay for being proactive by bringing his printer from home.

People showed up early, I gave individual instruction and handled staggering the starts as people were ready to go. Richard Davies also gave instruction and helped runners into the start area. Jonathan Boyer was greeting and getting new runners to orienteering excited to go out on their courses. Jonathan also set up a small course in the Start/Finish area, which was well enjoyed by children and orienteers who were out for their first time.

The top three on the respective courses were:

White Course

1^st Team Goodman, 2^nd Team 3Gen and 3^rd Team Repeaters

Yellow Course

1^st Team The Izzys, 2^nd Team Bugsbunny and 3^rd Team Zayd

Runners Course

1^st Sarah Blakely, 2^nd BeerRun Solo and 3^rd Ned Lea

Orange Course

1^st Brook Taylor & Kevin Dick, 2^nd Ned Sam Huffman and 3^rd Brooklyn Burmeister

“A very tight race between Sam & Brooklyn for 2^nd & 3^rd, both 1^st time orienteer runners”

Green Course

1^st Shin Shimizu, 2^nd Chiori Shimizu and 3^rd Team Moobears

Red Course

1^st Josh Franek, 2^nd Walker Ziewitz and 3^rd John Patterson

A link to Official Results and times is posted below. Also, there is a link below to a very good video produced by Jonathan Boyer and Todd Pownell, with their commentary on their separate course checking runs of the Runners course. It contains valuable inights into the thinking processes that elite orienteers go through as they attack a course, and is a very good illustration of the benefits of using Livelox for post-event review and analysis of your runs. For anyone wishing to upload their recorded routes to Livelox, and enjoy replays, those links are also below.

Post event Control Collection was done by Jay Smink, Jonathan Boyer and myself. Mike Avery packed up all equipment for us as we returned.

Thanks to Fred Mailey for doing all behind the scenes work for pre-registration signup and also helping with finishing after running the Green course and coming in 5^th on event day.

Todd Pownell, Event Director

Official Results for 2021 Sunny Lake Classic-O / Runners-O

Splits for 2021 Sunny Lake Classic-O / Runners-O

Runners Course Commentary by Jonathan Boyer and Todd Pownell

Upload Your Recorded Sunny Lake Route Files to Livelox

Replay Sunny Lake Red Routes in Livelox (Use drop-down on left side of page in Livelox to select other courses)

Photos

See the Sunny Lake 2021 album on our Facebook page for photos from Todd Pownell, Jonathan Boyer, and many others as they are added. If you have some that you have taken, please consider adding them to the album.