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.