Jonny was invited to the Ohio State Indoor Track and Field Championships held at the University of Akron’s Stile Athletics Field House. It was a condensed day as there were limited competitors in the Division I finals.
Jonny ran in the 4×800 relay and the 4×400 relay.
The 4×800 relay was ran without two of the members of the relay team that qualified them for the state tournament. The reasoning being that they were running individual events themselves and those events were too close to the time of the 4×800 to allow for a full recovery. One individual ran the 1600 Meter run and scored a personal best time for himself. The other ran the 800 meter run and won the event by several seconds and almost had a new Ohio State Indoor record.
Jonny ran his 800 meter leg in 2:10, which was several seconds off his personal best. One of the other members of the relay team was sick according to Jonny and was well off his personal best time as well. The team did not make it to top 8 which receive medals.
Jonny ran in the 4×400 meter relay and Granville was seeded as the 4th team in the state. They were in the third and final heat of the 4×400 relay which consisted of the fasted seeded group. The first two heats saw several teams beat Granville’s seed time by over 4 seconds. Everyone was going to have to run their personal best for them to have a chance. Jonny ran his let in 54.2 which is his personal best by about a quarter of second. The team beat their previous time but by only 9/100’s of a second. They were 9th place and just missed the podium and a medal.
Jonny has a week of relaxed running and then practice starts for outdoor track.