Monthly Archives: October 2017

Jonny runs an 8K at the MAC Championships

It’s the end of the season for Jonny as he ran in the Mid American Conference Cross Country Championships held at Miami University in Oxford, Oh.  This time in Oxford was very different than when we were there earlier in the season.  Earlier is so hot they ran early to try to avoid the 90 degree heat.  This time it was windy wet and low 40’s.  Parts of the course had standing water from the rain the had gotten leading up to race time.  At least it didn’t rain during the race.

Jonny completed the 8K course in 27:11.7 and placed 74th out of 81 participants. The official results can be found here at TFRRS.

This completes Jonny’s career as a cross country runner as his coach is going to take the mid distance track runners out of competing in the fall in cross country in the upcoming years.  We are going to miss watching and cheering him on in races in the fall.  He has always been fun to watch run.

Here is the video I took of his final race.

Jonny runs at the Penn State National Open

Jonny ran at the Penn State Nation Open today in State College, PA at Penn State. The campus was very nice and beautiful and the event was held on the Blue and White Gold Course.

This race was a 5.2 mile race instead of an 8K race which is 4.97 miles, so this would be Jonny’s longest race yet.  He was racing against schools all across the country including Penn State, Oklahoma State, Villanova, Cornell, North Carolina, University of California Davis, Akron, Bucknell, Lehigh, Duquesne, Loyola, William and Mary, and Kent State.

Jonny ended up 113 out of 131 runners with a time of 27:57. At the 5K mark he was 119, so he passed 6 more runners in the final 3+ Kilometers of the race.  The official results can be found here on Athletic.net.

After the race he said he wasn’t feeling well and thought he may have been sick.

Here is the video I took of the race.