Jonny ran in the Licking Country League Championship meet today held at Watkins Memorial High School in nearby Pataskala, Ohio. The League is now split into two divisions the Buckeye division for larger schools and the Cardinal division for the smaller schools. Granville is in the Buckeye division for larger schools. They run both divisions together and then split them out for scoring.
Before the race even began, during warm ups, Jonny pulled his hamstring and was holding his hamstring for a large portion of race. You could see in his face that he was in pain, even in the beginning portions of the race. Even though he was not one hundred percent, he finished 4th overall, 3rd in the Buckeye division with a time of 16:05.24, his best time ever at that course.
The team took 2nd place and they were missing their 2nd runner, but I don’t think that would have made a difference in the place they took, it would have just narrowed the gap.
Here is the video: