Monthly Archives: February 2015

Last Week Jonny was supposed to run at Dennison University, but because of the bad weather Granville cancelled the meet for their athletes, even though it was located right here in Granville. The kids were not allowed to participate and told by the coaches that they were going to attend to make sure none of the kids representing Granville ran and could possibly be punished by the athletic director.

Today Jonny participated in the Central District Division I Indoor Meet held at Otterbein University located in Westerville, OH.  This was going to be his last chance to to qualify for the State Indoor Track Meet.  They had a good opportunity with the group representing the 4×800 relay team.  Jonny ran the first leg and got a decent start and was in the middle of pack.  He worked his way to the outside worked his way into 3rd place before he handed off to the 2nd leg.  Unfortunately it wasn’t a clean handoff and they were declared out of the hand off zone by the time the hand off took place.  The 2nd leg they worked up into 2nd place and at the end of the third leg they had built up quite a lead.  At that point they had all kinds of trouble as the person running the fourth leg had miscounted laps and wasn’t in the area to take the handoff.  I think they ended up in 6th place because of the 20 second delay for the last hand off.  It didn’t matter anyway as they were disqualified for the first infraction and just for good measure they added on 4 more infractions before the end of the race.  All the boys were deeply disappointed as the team they were handly beating ended up having a good enough time to go to qualify for state and they were in position to get a new personal best time as a team.

By the time the boys were ready to run the 4×400 relay they were all joking around about previous race and all appeared forgiven since each member of the team had a DQ against them.

The 4×400 race was the last race of the event and the boys completed it in 3:45.24 which put them in 10th place out of the field of 17 teams.

Jonny’s 2015 indoor track season is over and he moves right on to start practicing for the outdoor track season.

Today Jonny ran in the fourth Ohio State Indoor State Track Meet Qualifier held at the French Fieldhouse on the Ohio State University Campus.  Jonny ran in two events today the 3200 Meter Relay (4×800) and the 4oo meter run.

First up was the relay.  Jonny ran the third leg of the relay in the first heat and received the baton while in 5th place.  He was able to pass one team ahead of them while also negotiating other teams they were beginning to lap.  Jonny’s time of 2:04.9 was a new indoor personal best for himself and the team finished in 8:32.52 which was good enough for 4th place overall out of 32 teams.

His next race was the 400 meter run.  Jonny was seeded in the 5th heat of 10 heats overall, they run the heats from the fastest runners to the slowest to keep the competition fairly consistent in each heat.  He finished 2nd in his heat and 18th overall out of 57 runners and ran much better than where he was seeded.  He finished in 55.2 which was 8/10ths faster than his seed time of 56 even.  At the 200 mark he was in 5th place, but his endurance kicked in and he was able to pass 3 runners, including one right at the finish line to take 2nd place in the heat.  In the video below you can see how much distance he had to make up to catch the leaders.

After a bye week last week, Jonny is running again at the French Fieldhouse in the Ohio State University High School Qualifier #3.  He is only scheduled to run one event this week and that is the 800 Meter Dash.

He got another bad start and at one point was last place in his heat.  He worked his way to the outside and was able to pass 9 more people and ended up 7th place overall out of 61 participants with a time of 2:05.91 which is a new indoor personal best time for him.

The official results can be found at finishtiming.com.