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.