Today Jonny ran in the High School Boys 5K Varsity race at the Erin Nance Cross County Invitational located at the London Country Club in London, OH. This is a High School only meet and will be a short day as the Middle School team is running in the Heath Invitational, in nearby Heath.
Since this is a High School only race, Jonny had never run here before and had never seen the course, which is on the golf course, and is mostly flat with just a few small hills. This race is run with all three divisions running in the same event and then the divisions are separated out later for team results. There were 11 Division II schools participating and Granville took 1st. Again they were not running with on of their top runners and he was given a rest this weekend. Our other top who has been out for weeks did run in his first race in weeks.
Jonny near the finish line
Jonny ran a good race from the start and positioned himself very well from the beginning. With all the divisions running together he finished 83rd in a field of 194. In his division he placed 14th out of 71 varsity runners. He was the 5th Granville runner and earned 14 points for his efforts. Granville’s 7th runner displaced points on all but one other team and their 6th runner displaced points on all the other teams. It really shows the depth of this squad. The Girls Varsity also took 1st place at this meet out of 8 schools.
Jonny passing other runners near the finish line.
The results can be found at the FinishTiming.com website or on the Granville Running Database.
Video can be found here.