Adventures Of My Life
Jonny competed in the Division I Regional Meet at Pickerington High School North. He needed to either have the team finish 4th or better or he had to finish in the top 16 to move on to the State Finals next week. The team finished in 12th place and Jonny finished in 16:26.6 which was 24th place out of 123 runners. He did not make it to the State finals this year.
Official results can be found on FinishTiming.com.
Jonny was racing at the Central District Championship today held today at the Watkins Memorial High School. He was racing in Division 1, Section 2. Conditions were mid 60′ and sprinkling. To move on to Regionals the team had to place 5th or better, or Jonny had to finish in the top 20 to move on as an individual.
Jonny got a good start and through the first 800 meters he established himself in the top 15. He moved up a few positions through out the race and came in 12th overall out of 112 competitors. He finished the race in 16:14.3, which is his 2nd best time of his career. The team ended up getting 5th place and so the entire team gets to move on to the Regionals for Division I Central Ohio which is held in Pickerington. The boys have never raced there before and are not really sure what to expect.
The official results can be found here at WatkinsTrack.org or on the Granville Running Database.
Here is the video I took today.
Jonny competed in the Licking Country League Championships held at Watkins Memorial High School. The conditions were a little cool in the upper 30’s with a slight breeze, but the course was nice and dry which makes it a fast course as there are no big hills on the course.
Jonny got a chance to run head to head with the #4 runner in the country, Andrew Jordan from Watkins Memorial. Jonny competed well and ended up 7th overall out of 68 runners. When they broke down the different divisions he was 6th out of 35 runners. He recorded his 2nd best time ever with a time of 16:17.22. The boys team ended up 2nd in the division behind Watkins Memorial.
I did take some video from the race which is here below.
The official results from the meet can be found on the watkinstrack.org website.
If you would like to see what the results would have been without dividing out the divisions after the race was run you can see that information on the Granville Aces Running Database.
Jonny competed in the Les Eisenhart Cross Country Invitational today. This has typically been one of the fastest courses Granville participates in every year. The kids times normally reflect a fast course with competition that is going to push you to be your best. This year was no different.
The event is so big that they divide the high school open races up to freshman and sophomores in one open race and juniors and seniors in another race. There were a total of 811 high school boys running today. Of those 811 boys Jonny finished 16th overall. He finished 16th in his varsity race with 211 competitors. He got off to a very good start to get ahead of the group in the tight spots as a seasoned runner in this race had taught him in the past. He ran a great race and he was able to break his previous record by 13 seconds with a new personal best of 16:10 over the 5K course.
The official score sheet can be found here: http://www.baumspage.com/cc/eisenhart/2015/Eisenhart High School Boys Varsity Race.pdf
The video I took from the race is here:
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.