Monthly Archives: September 2015

Jonny did not participate in the meet up in Gallion last week. This week the team was supposed to be in Lancaster for a meet, but the varsity runners qualified for a big meet over in Centerville, just south of Dayton. This is an unusual cross country meet as the race is held at night. The boys don’t run until 9:45 at night. The girls ran at 9:15.  The weather was a cool 63 degrees and windy.  The boys race it started to drizzle.

Jonny got himself a good start to avoid the first bottleneck at about the 600 meter mark.  The first mile mark Jonny, Joe and Tyler were all together at 5:03 into the race.  Jonny was 17th.  At the 2nd mile mark the three boys were in sight of each other with Joe at 10:22,  Jonny at 10:26 and Tyler at 10:32.  Jonny ended up 16th overall, out of 223 runners, with a time of 16:32.32.  The team ended up in 8th place out of 19 teams.

The official results can be found on finishtiming.com.  Results can also be found on the Granville Aces Cross Country Web site.

I did take some video from the race and the post race ceremonies.

The weather in Tiffin today was almost ideal with temps at 67 degrees and the wind at 17 mph.  It was over a two hour drive each way to Tiffin, which it about 25 miles east of Findlay.  The boys had to run the first 800 meters very hard to get to the first tight turn on the coarse and be near the front of the pack of over 300 runners to avoid the log jam at the turn.  The course was spread out and we were unable to cross certain sections of the course, so we only got to see them a few times.  Granville Boys finished 11th out of 45 Division I-A varsity teams.  Jonny finished in 16:24.39 which was 33rd place out of the 304 runners and only 1 second off his personal best time.

According to MileSplit.com, Jonny is currently the 932nd fastest high school runner in the nation.  For the state of Ohio he is currently ranked 102nd overall and 32nd for all Juniors in Ohio

The official results can be found on here on the finishtiming.com site, or on the Granville Aces Cross Country Database.

I did get a little video of Jonny in the race shown here.

Jonny ran at the Granville Invitational today held at the Byn Du Mansion here in Granville.  It’s the first meet of the year for Granville and the only meet that Granville hosts.  The conditions today were not ideal for the runners and it was hot and humid with the temps at the start of the race 78 degrees and quickly rising and the humidity at 86%.  Jonny’s race started at 10:00 and was the last of the high school races.

He had a good start and kept himself in the front third for the first kilometer.  He then broke out with the front runners around the 3K mark.  When we saw the group again after running around the mansion and big hill on the back side the front group separated, and Jonny was still in the top 10.  He ended up finishing 9th overall out of 113 varsity runners with a time of 16:40, which beat last years time of 16:52.

The official results can be found on Baumspage.  Results can also be view from the Granville Running Database.

Here is some video of Jonny during the race.