Akron Rubber City Meet – February 20, 2016

Jonny running the 800 Meter Run at the University of Akron in the Rubber City Meet

Jonny made the two hour trip to Akron to participate in the Rubber City Meet held at the Stile Athletics Field House. The field house is a large beautiful complex that includes a 300 meter track instead of the normal 200 meter track found at most other field houses.

Jonny ran in two events today. The 800 Meter run and the 4×400 Meter relay. In the 800 meter run he was placed in the 2nd heat. From the start, he got himself positioned on the inside and was about 5th or 6th place at the 200 meter mark. At the 500 meter mark he just moved into 3rd place. The last 200 meters he turned it on and used to his speed to take the lead with about 130 meters to go and continued to use his speed to distance himself from second place. He earned himself a new indoor personal best with a time of 2:00.55 which put him 7th overall out of 79 runners. It would have been interesting to see if he would have broke 2 minutes if he were in the first heat. Here is the video of his heat:

His next race was the 4×400. They were in the 5th heat of that race. Jonny ran the 1st leg and ran a good race and moved himself up into 1st place by a foot or two right at the handoff. Thomas took the baton and and lead and held off 2nd place right at the end of his 400 meters. He gave the baton to Joe and he totally dominated the 3rd leg of the race and distance himself from the rest of the group. Dustin took the final leg and held on to the finish to take first place in their heat and 20th overall out of 32 teams. Not too bad without a single sprinter on the team! Here is the video from their heat:

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