Monthly Archives: May 2015

Stephanie fosters kittens

Stephanie volunteered to foster kittens from the Licking Country Humane Society. She was asked to take 4 kittens for a week or two to get them up to a proper weight for their age before they can be adopted.

The dogs find the kittens very entertaining and follow them around and try to keep track of all of them. The dogs are very good with them, but still need to be supervised with them. Not because they want to do them any harm, but they tend to get excited when the kittens are very active and can’t stand still and have almost stepped on them a couple of times because they are not paying attention.

Central District Meet – Day 2 – May 20, 2015

The Central District Meet is held at Hilliard Darby High School. The first day is dedicated to field events and Jonny did not participate in the first day. The second day of the event the preliminaries are run. Jonny was scheduled to run the 4×800 Meter Relay, which is one of the few finals that were run. He was also scheduled to run the 800 Meter Run preliminary where he needed to be one of the top 8 in his heat to make it to the finals on Saturday. The last race he ran was the 4×400 Meter Relay preliminary. The top 8 times in the 4×400 prelims will run in the finals on Saturday as well.

In the 4×800 finals the boys finished in 8:09.15 and were edged out for the 4th place finish. Jonny ran the 2nd leg in 2:01.1.

The 800 Meter Run Preliminaries, Jonny ran a very conservative 2:06.94, his slowest 800 time of the season. He still ended up winning the preliminary heat he was in and advanced on the to finals for Saturday.

The 4×400 Relay Preliminaries were the final event of the evening. The boys finished the race 3rd in their heat with a time of 3:32.36 which was 5th overall and qualified them for the finals on Saturday. Jonny ran the final leg in 55.2 seconds and looked tired from the previous two races as he was passed and by one runner and never recovered and come in a distant 3rd, which is very unusual for Jonny as he is normally very competitive.

LCL Championships – Day 2 – May 15, 2015

Jonny ran in the 800 Meter Run and the 4×400 Relay Finals today.

In the 800 meter run, Jonny got out to an early lead for the first 350 meters. At that point he was passed and allowed the other runner to get out too far in front to catch. Jonny said he was surprised the other runner took the lead and kept his faster pace at that time. By the time Jonny kicked he couldn’t catch him. Jonny got his 2nd best time with a time of 2:01.14

Jonny also participated in the 4×400 Relay finals. The team took 5th place with a time of 3:31.4. Jonny ran the final leg of the race in 53 seconds.

LCL Championships – Day 1 – May 12, 2015

Jonny ran in the Licking County League (LCL) Championships on Tuesday. He only ran two events, the first event the 4×800 relay and the last event the 4×400 relay. The 4×800 relay was a final and the 4×400 was a preliminary to decide who races in the final held on Friday

Jonny ran the second leg of the race in 2:02.5. He got the baton with the team in 4th place. After the first 400 meters the top 4 teams were all together. The 2nd lap, Jonny took control and got the team in the lead and by the time he handed the baton off, his lead was about 20 meters. The team ended up taking 2nd place with a time of 8:12.11. Here is the video of the race.

In the 4×400, the team finished in 3:37.11 and ran his 400 meters in 53 seconds flat, which was more than enough to qualify the team for the finals race on Friday. Jonny ran the final leg and was in third place when he got the baton about 30 meters behind the first place runner and 15 meters behind the 2nd place runner. He caught the 2nd place runner around the 300 meter mark and almost made it to the 1st place runner, but the team ended up 2nd overall in the prelims. Below is the video I took of the 4×400 preliminary race.

Larkin Invitational

The team participated at the Larkin Invitational for the first time. They have wanted to get into this meet as the competition is very good. The meet is held at Upper Arlington High School in Upper Arlington, OH. This is the same venue where they had their first meet of the season as a tri meet which included Hilliard Darby. Jonny was scheduled to participate in the 1600 meter run and the 4×400 relay. The team finally received their new uniforms, you will notice, in the videos below, the boys team now has dark tops instead of the white tops they had before.

In the 1600 Meter run Jonny Jonny completed the 4 laps with a Personal Best time of 4:33.35. He finished in 7th place overall out of 21 runners participating in the race. This was the first time this season he has run the 1600 Meter Run. He did participate in the 4×1600 Meter Relay at the Fulton Relay Invitational held in Lancaster on April 24th.

The 4×400 Relay the boys were placed in the slower heat. They all ran very well and secured a Season Best time of 3:32.89 for any 4×400 run during the 2015 track season. Jonny ran the 4th leg of the race and tucked in behind the leader of the heat until about the 200 meter mark and then he made his move and finished very strong and easily won by 35 meters. They ended up 4th overall out of the 9 teams participating.

Wayne Invitational

Jonny participated in another big Track and Field Invitational this weekend. He ran in the 800 Meter Run and the 4×400 Relay at the 16th Annual Wayne Invitational held at Huber Heights High School just outside of Dayton.

Jonny ran in the 3rd of 4th heats that were run from slowest seeds to fastest seeds. He ended up 19th out of the 57 participants in the event with a new Personal Best time of 2:00.12. He got trapped on the inside lane and was unable to get to the outside to make his move as early as he wanted. To give you an idea of the competition at this meet, out of the top 50 runners in the 800 Meter in the state of Ohio, 16 were from this single meet. Jonny is rated 54th in the state for Division I, 69th overall in the state. When you filter out upperclassmen, Jonny is rated 9th in the state for the 800 Meter run. Here is the video I took at the meet of the 800 meter run.

The boys didn’t fair so well in the 4×400. Most of the other schools use sprinters who ran earlier in the meet as opposed to Granville, who runs mostly distance runners who just finished other races within the hour. The team didn’t get their best time in the event with a time of 3:39.57. Jonny finished the 400 meters in a respectable 54.8.