Category Archives: Indoor Track

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:

Jonny ran in the Otterbein Valentine High School Qualifier today at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.  He only ran in the 1600 Meter Run today.  He finished 3rd out of 83 runners with a new personal best of 4:31.40.  The video can be found below.

Jonny ran in the Buckeye Qualifier #3 today held at OSU’s French Field House. He ran in the 800 meter run and the 4×400 relay.

In the 800 meter run he finsihed 8th in his heat and 9th overall with a time of 2:04.64. Once again he didn’t get a great start and ended up in the middle of the pack getting pushed around and pushing others to try to make space the first 100 meters or so.  Once he got to the outside he was able to pass a few people.  Although he let one of the kids he passed pass him back right at the finish line.  I don’t think he realized the guy was catching him.  I did take video, so here it is.

In the 4×400 meter run he was the first leg of the race and started out in the far outside lane, lane 6. At the gun, he started at a slow run and after the first person immediately passed him, he picked up his pace. He completed his leg in 54.9 and put the team in 2nd place after his leg. The team ended up winning their heat with a time of 3:44.27 which put them in 11th place overall out of 21 teams.  After watching the race again they really belonged in the 2nd heat and may have been able to jump a spot or two if they had some competition. Again I have video of that race.

The official results can be found on FinishTiming.com, or you can see them on the Granville Track and Field Reporting Tool.

Jonny’s second Indoor Track meet, like the first one last week, was also held at the French Field House at Ohio State located in Columbus, Ohio on January 23rd, 2016.

This week Jonny ran in the 1600 Meter Run and the 400 Meter Run.  Jonny ran in the first heat of the 1600 meter run in 4:34.21 which was good enough for 5th place overall.  I did take some video of that run and here it is.

Jonny also ran the 400 meter run about 45 minutes after competing in the mile.  He ran in the 3rd heat.  It’s funny watching our distance guys run in the 400 meter races.  In Jonny’s race he was the only one who didn’t start with blocks.  I heard of couple of people sitting around me pointing it out just before the race started.  Jonny ended up 2nd in his heat and 10th overall out 57 runners.  After the race I heard those same people sound surprised that Jonny ended up in 2nd ahead of their boys.  Jonny finished in 54.41.  Here is the video I took from that race.

The official results can be found at FinishTiming.com.  You can also find the results at the Granville Aces Track and Field Reporting Tool.

Jonny started the season running in the Ohio State University HS Qualifier #1, held at the French Field House at OSU on January 16th, 2016.

He was only scheduled for one event today the 4×800 meter relay.  The team took 6th place overall out of 22 teams with a team time of 8:57.56.  Jonny ran the third leg and ran most of the race alone as he was about 85 meters behind the team in front of him.  He finally caught up to the 3 teams in front of him and passed 2 of those teams last 200 meters.  His split time was 2:08.4.

I did not get a chance to get any video of this race as my batteries to the camera where dead.  I will have video from next week though.  I promise.

The official results can be found at FinishTiming.com, or on the Granville Aces Track and Field Reporting Tool.

Last Week Jonny was supposed to run at Dennison University, but because of the bad weather Granville cancelled the meet for their athletes, even though it was located right here in Granville. The kids were not allowed to participate and told by the coaches that they were going to attend to make sure none of the kids representing Granville ran and could possibly be punished by the athletic director.

Today Jonny participated in the Central District Division I Indoor Meet held at Otterbein University located in Westerville, OH.  This was going to be his last chance to to qualify for the State Indoor Track Meet.  They had a good opportunity with the group representing the 4×800 relay team.  Jonny ran the first leg and got a decent start and was in the middle of pack.  He worked his way to the outside worked his way into 3rd place before he handed off to the 2nd leg.  Unfortunately it wasn’t a clean handoff and they were declared out of the hand off zone by the time the hand off took place.  The 2nd leg they worked up into 2nd place and at the end of the third leg they had built up quite a lead.  At that point they had all kinds of trouble as the person running the fourth leg had miscounted laps and wasn’t in the area to take the handoff.  I think they ended up in 6th place because of the 20 second delay for the last hand off.  It didn’t matter anyway as they were disqualified for the first infraction and just for good measure they added on 4 more infractions before the end of the race.  All the boys were deeply disappointed as the team they were handly beating ended up having a good enough time to go to qualify for state and they were in position to get a new personal best time as a team.

By the time the boys were ready to run the 4×400 relay they were all joking around about previous race and all appeared forgiven since each member of the team had a DQ against them.

The 4×400 race was the last race of the event and the boys completed it in 3:45.24 which put them in 10th place out of the field of 17 teams.

Jonny’s 2015 indoor track season is over and he moves right on to start practicing for the outdoor track season.

Today Jonny ran in the fourth Ohio State Indoor State Track Meet Qualifier held at the French Fieldhouse on the Ohio State University Campus.  Jonny ran in two events today the 3200 Meter Relay (4×800) and the 4oo meter run.

First up was the relay.  Jonny ran the third leg of the relay in the first heat and received the baton while in 5th place.  He was able to pass one team ahead of them while also negotiating other teams they were beginning to lap.  Jonny’s time of 2:04.9 was a new indoor personal best for himself and the team finished in 8:32.52 which was good enough for 4th place overall out of 32 teams.

His next race was the 400 meter run.  Jonny was seeded in the 5th heat of 10 heats overall, they run the heats from the fastest runners to the slowest to keep the competition fairly consistent in each heat.  He finished 2nd in his heat and 18th overall out of 57 runners and ran much better than where he was seeded.  He finished in 55.2 which was 8/10ths faster than his seed time of 56 even.  At the 200 mark he was in 5th place, but his endurance kicked in and he was able to pass 3 runners, including one right at the finish line to take 2nd place in the heat.  In the video below you can see how much distance he had to make up to catch the leaders.

After a bye week last week, Jonny is running again at the French Fieldhouse in the Ohio State University High School Qualifier #3.  He is only scheduled to run one event this week and that is the 800 Meter Dash.

He got another bad start and at one point was last place in his heat.  He worked his way to the outside and was able to pass 9 more people and ended up 7th place overall out of 61 participants with a time of 2:05.91 which is a new indoor personal best time for him.

The official results can be found at finishtiming.com.

Jonny participated in the indoor Ohio State University High School Qualifier #2 today. He ran in the 800 meter run and in the 4×400 relay.

The 800 Meter run he was seeded 19th out of 63 participants with a seed time of 2:10. He was put in the 1st heat which probably helped his time with the faster competition.  He didn’t get the best of start, as you can see in the video, but still finished 5th overall with a time of 2:06.35 which is a new indoor personal best time for him in the 800.  After his poor start he almost immediately started to pick off competitors in his attempt to stay with the lead group.  After the start he ran a near perfect race and looked strong and confident.  I took a video of this race shown below.

He also ran in the 4×400 relay.  The team participated in the 2nd of heats.  Jonny ran the 2nd leg and got a good handoff and proceeded to reel in two competitors before completing his 400 meter leg.  Jonny ran his leg in 56.6 seconds and the team completed the race in 3:51.45.  The team finished 12th out of 21 teams participating and ended up 5th out of 6 teams in their heat.  I did take some video of the race, but my battery died before the end of the race and didn’t save.  I have the batteries charging for their next meet which is scheduled for February 7th.

Jonny ran at the French Fieldhouse at The Ohio State University today.  He only ran in one event today.  The 4×800 boys relay.  There was only one heat with 16 teams.  Jonny ran the 2nd leg of the race and ran in 2:13.  The team completed the race in 9:06.07 which was good enough for 3rd place overall.  This was the teams 1st race in the indoor track season and most kids only raced in one event.  This meet was used to get the kids used to running in the dry conditions at the fieldhouse and familiarize themselves with how the indoor meets are run again.

Next week they run at the French Fieldhouse again and will have the opportunity to run in more than one event.