Monthly Archives: November 2014

2014 Granville Turkey Trot

Today Jonny ran in the Granville Turkey Trot which benefits the Licking County Food Bank. Jonny was one of 20053 runners participating in the run. They staged the starts into 3 starts. The competitive runners, the fun runners and the fun walkers. Jonny started with the competitive runners. At race time the temps were 31 degrees and snowing. He met several of his high school cross country racing buddies and they warmed up together before the race.

Jonny finished 8th overall out of 2053 participants with a time of 17:40.

After the race he went and had hot chocolate and donuts at one of his coaches house that is located on the race course. It was very windy and cold today and Nikki and I were numb standing and cheering the runners on.

Thanksgiving

We had our Thanksgiving diner with Ashley and Shane the day before Thanksgiving. They were going to be going to Shane’s mom’s house on Thanksgiving and asked to have diner at our house on Wednesday. Instead of Turkey, Ashley is not a fan of Turkey, Nikki cooked a delicious ham dinner with mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, mashed pumpkin and homemade cranberry sauce.

Stephanie’s best friend from high school, Ryan, was home from college and brought a friend from college, who was from Mexico and unable to make it back home for the long weekend. They were all over for dinner as well.

Ashley and Shane brought Apollo and all the dogs played together until they all ran out of energy, which was much later in the day. They stayed much later than expected and we had nice conversations and went through old pictures later into the night. It was a very nice visit and Nikki and I enjoyed the night very much.

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving morning, Jonny is running in the Granville Turkey Trot 5K race held in the streets of Granville.

State Cross Country Championship

For the first time in his running career Jonny participated in the Ohio High School State Cross Country Championship. The State meet is run at a neutral site. It is held at the National Trail Raceway which is 8 miles south of our house off Route 37 at the intersection of Route 40. The weather today was cold, windy and rainy, with the temps in the low 40’s, but the feels like temps in the low 30’s due to the 20 mile per hour winds.

Nearing the first mile mark

Granville Boys took 6th overall in the state. Jonny ran a 17:00 in the windy conditions, which was good enough to place him 56th overall out of 147 participants. He earned 34 points in his team’s 187 point effort. What that means is if you take out the individuals that ran the race without a team, he was 34th overall out of all the teams for Division II.

The last 150 meters

I did take some video that was limited to what we could see from the Grandstands. The video is below.

The official results can be found on finishtiming.com and the results can also be found on the Granville Running Database.

The girls team took 1st in the state edging out Lexington by one point to take the state championship trophy. Congratulations to the girls teams for an outstanding undefeated season.

When both teams arrived back in Granville, they were greeted with a police and fire engine escort with lights flashing and sirens wailing all the way to the high school.