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PITTSBURG —
St. Mary’s Colgan senior long distance runner Jonny Adamson said that he never keeps track of distance when he works out.
“It’s more along the lines of time,” Adamson said, “which is about three hours. Usually, I stay in a specific area of Countryside.”
“Nobody deserves it (success) more than Jonny,” Rebecca Adamson, Jonny’s mom, said. “If anybody’s ever seen him training constantly. That’s all he does. He just runs. He runs in the parking lot because he doesn’t want to get run over. And he just runs all the time. Sometimes he runs in the morning a couple hours, then he runs in the afternoon, he runs in the evening, he runs at night. I almost have to ground him to come home at night so he’s not out running at night.”
“For those of you that know Jonny, when he’s out on one of those long runs, we’d all love to know what’s going through his head,” Colgan athletic director Kyle Wolf said. “He’s had a very good career and we’re very proud of him.”
Adamson, a third place finisher in the Class 3A state cross country meet last October, will be plying his cross country trade next year at Coffeyville Community College.
His running’s not done at Colgan, for he will be slated to run the 4x800, 1-mile and 2-mile this spring for the high school track team. Adamson finished second in the Class 3A 2-mile last spring.
“Jonny, we’ve had three great years,” Colgan track coach Cathy Oplotnik said. “Let’s end your senior year with a great year in track and I know you’re excited. I know you’ve got teammates who’re excited to see what you can do and what they can do, as well.”
Adamson won Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League cross country titles both his junior and senior years, won a regional title his senior year and earned All-State in cross country both years, finishing 13th his junior year and third his senior year.
Adamson described the experience of running a cross country race.
“It’s intense,” Adamson said. “The best example would be if you’re at a state track meet or a state cross country meet. You’ll actually be fighting it for whatever you want to get because there will always be somebody who wants it more or if you want it more, you’ll have to go for it. . . . My first year, as a freshman, I guess I wasn’t the best runner in the world and then it kind of built on me after a while.”
Adamson said that one day he would like to run a marathon.
The Red Ravens of Coffeyville are coached by Craig Perry, a winner of the 2012 NJCAA Outdoor Track Head Coach of the Year and who coaches men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s track and women’s track. The cross country team at Coffeyville has also enjoyed academic success — Adamson said that he plans to major in biology and attend Pittsburg State after his time in Coffeyville.
Adamson was selected to run in the Kansas Shrine Bowl All-Star Cross Country Race.
St. Mary’s Colgan senior long distance runner Jonny Adamson said that he never keeps track of distance when he works out.
“It’s more along the lines of time,” Adamson said, “which is about three hours. Usually, I stay in a specific area of Countryside.”
“Nobody deserves it (success) more than Jonny,” Rebecca Adamson, Jonny’s mom, said. “If anybody’s ever seen him training constantly. That’s all he does. He just runs. He runs in the parking lot because he doesn’t want to get run over. And he just runs all the time. Sometimes he runs in the morning a couple hours, then he runs in the afternoon, he runs in the evening, he runs at night. I almost have to ground him to come home at night so he’s not out running at night.”
“For those of you that know Jonny, when he’s out on one of those long runs, we’d all love to know what’s going through his head,” Colgan athletic director Kyle Wolf said. “He’s had a very good career and we’re very proud of him.”
Adamson, a third place finisher in the Class 3A state cross country meet last October, will be plying his cross country trade next year at Coffeyville Community College.
His running’s not done at Colgan, for he will be slated to run the 4x800, 1-mile and 2-mile this spring for the high school track team. Adamson finished second in the Class 3A 2-mile last spring.
“Jonny, we’ve had three great years,” Colgan track coach Cathy Oplotnik said. “Let’s end your senior year with a great year in track and I know you’re excited. I know you’ve got teammates who’re excited to see what you can do and what they can do, as well.”
Adamson won Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League cross country titles both his junior and senior years, won a regional title his senior year and earned All-State in cross country both years, finishing 13th his junior year and third his senior year.
Adamson described the experience of running a cross country race.
“It’s intense,” Adamson said. “The best example would be if you’re at a state track meet or a state cross country meet. You’ll actually be fighting it for whatever you want to get because there will always be somebody who wants it more or if you want it more, you’ll have to go for it. . . . My first year, as a freshman, I guess I wasn’t the best runner in the world and then it kind of built on me after a while.”
Adamson said that one day he would like to run a marathon.
The Red Ravens of Coffeyville are coached by Craig Perry, a winner of the 2012 NJCAA Outdoor Track Head Coach of the Year and who coaches men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s track and women’s track. The cross country team at Coffeyville has also enjoyed academic success — Adamson said that he plans to major in biology and attend Pittsburg State after his time in Coffeyville.
Adamson was selected to run in the Kansas Shrine Bowl All-Star Cross Country Race.
