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Location:

South Weber,UT,

Member Since:

May 09, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Records:

800 Meters 1:50.14 (Track-BYU)

1500 Meters 3:42.07 (Track-Stanford) Likely the best race of my life; converts to a 3:59.85 Mile

5000 Meters 14:20 (Track-Stanford)

8000 Meters 23:53 (Cross Country-Pre Nationals Iowa)

10000 Meters 29:57 (Track-Stanford)

Half Marathon (Mesa-Phoenix Half) 1:05:11

Marathon (St George) 2:16:09

Short-Term Running Goals:

2017 Races:

Mesa-Phoenix Half - 3rd Place 1:05:11 PR

Ogden WRC 10-Miler - 1st Place 55:46

Provo City Half - 1st Place 1:06:33

Ogden Marathon - 2nd Place 2:25:46

Long-Term Running Goals:

My main goal is just to stay healthy.  I was injured every year in my college career except for one.  I would like to reverse that trend and always stay injury-free.

 

Personal:

I am a family man.  I am married to my beautiful wife Amy (who also ran at Weber and is quite the runner).  We have four beautiful daughters named Evelyn (6 years old), Hannah (4 year old), Nora (2 year old), and Iris (5 months).

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Salomon Pro Wings 2 Lifetime Miles: 161.10
Brooks PureCadence 5 Lifetime Miles: 101.85
Brooks Adrenaline 17 Lifetime Miles: 161.85
Brooks Transcend 4 Lifetime Miles: 219.45
Brooks Ravenna 8 Lifetime Miles: 225.10
Brooks PureCadence 6 Lifetime Miles: 188.10
Brooks Launch 4 Lifetime Miles: 107.50
Brooks Glycerin 14 Lifetime Miles: 101.47
Brooks Hyperion Lifetime Miles: 92.13
Brooks Caldera Lifetime Miles: 31.10
Tue, Nov 20, 2012
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.008.000.000.0010.00

AEROBIC BUILDER

Another 545 am run with they guys at the parkway.  Ken, Jon, Bryant, and Brett H showed up this morning.  We warmed up two miles and then started into the workout.  About 1.5 miles in there's a sharp left turn onto a bridge crossing the Weber River and Ken and I were running side by side in front.  Ken was inside and as he took the turn onto the bridge we realized it was frosted over and slick, but we realized too late (going too fast and it was dark).  Ken's foot slipped out from under him.  Meanwhile I see this happening out of the corner of my eye and I try to step gingerly so as not to eat it as well.  Just when I think I've succeeded in not falling, Ken slides on his side into my planted foot and takes me out as well.  We both hurt our left hip pretty badly on the fall.  I think it's just a bruise, but it hurts.  It was both funny and irratating at the same time!

Anyway after a minute or so we got back to running.  We ended up averaging 5:49 pace for 8 miles...very nice run.  The weather was awesome this morning too.

Saucony Progrid Guide 5 Miles: 10.00
Weight: 155.00
Comments
From Jake K on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:01:23 from 155.100.226.191

Bridges + Winter are always a deadly combo.

From RileyCook on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:04:10 from 132.3.57.68

Haha, yeah that is very true. I guess we just didn't think about it since it was somewhat warm this morning and we had already gone over one bridge (which on the way back I realized was cement and not wood, hence no prob on that one).

Needless to say on the next two bridges and on the way back we were very careful.

From JPark on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:38:25 from 174.52.34.169

You're hitting some real nice runs lately Riley. Keep it up!

From Ken Bess on Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 07:46:00 from 174.52.148.34

Those hip-plants are the worst! ouch

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