Jonny ran in a home dual meet against The University of Akron Zips today. Jonny was only scheduled to run the 800 Meter run, but was asked to stay warm for the 4×400 as he may be needed to step in for one of the sprinters if they were injured. As luck would have it, Jonny was asked to run in the 4×400 on the C team of sprinters for the last race of the evening. I’m glad Nikki and I stuck around or we would have missed him running in the 4×400.
His first race was the 800 Meter run and he ended up in 4th place overall, 3rd for the team missing 2nd for the team by 0.01 of a second. He would have earned points if he was second on the team. His time for the race was 1:57.53, definitely not his best time, but not a bad time either for not racing in an 800 since early last June.
Here is the video of the 800 Meter Run. Sorry for the terrible camera work. I had to spin around on the bleachers while trying to keep him in frame and keep from falling off the top bench seat I was standing on.
Link to 800 Meter Run on YouTube.com.
I only took video of Jonny’s leg of the 4 x 400 race and it is below. We weren’t sure he was actually going to run until about 20 seconds before the race started. I didn’t catch the beginning of the race and they still didn’t have a 4th runner on the team so they dropped out after 3 legs. Jonny’s coaches told him he was timed for his 400 meters at 50.9, but that he actually took a couple of steps longer in the hand off box at the end of his leg because his runner took off early.