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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).

Twitter handle: @RunnerRiley7

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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, May 28, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
9.71	0.00	5.00	0.00	14.71

AM: TEMPO RUN

We had a good-sized group this morning with Ken, Jon, Taylor, Albert, and Bret. We met at the Dee Events Center parking lot and headed into South Ogden for a tempo run. We did a 3.2 mile warmup that included a half-mile at 5:50 pace and three strides. We then did our tempo on our "tempo loop" from college days.

Everyone basically ended up doing their own variation of a tempo run/workout. I did 5 miles in 25:45 (5:11 5:11 5:09 5:11 5:02). Ken ran the first 1.5 miles or so before falling back a bit, he ended up doing a 3-2-1 breakdown. Bret did 2 by 2 miles in 5:20s. Taylor, Albert, and Jon all did 3.5-4 miles in the 5:40s. So, it was a solid workout all around for everyone, and we got it in just before the rain started to drizzle.

I'm happy with this morning's workout. I haven't had very many runs (or races) since SLC Half in April that have been solid. Thanksgiving Point and Ogden were both disappointments and I haven't had any stellar workouts lately either, so the confidence needed a bit of a boost and I got that today.

PM: 4.03 miles easy listening to AWOLNATION, The Killers, and Imagine Dragons. I was tempted to just put "Not Your Fault" on repeat the whole time...good stuff.

Saucony Fastwich 6 Miles: 10.68	Pearl Izumi EM Road M3 Miles: 4.03

Weight: 152.80

Comments

From scottkeate on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:08:03 from 192.150.9.200

Nice to see you feeling strong again. Great workout!

From Ben VanBeekum on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:23:15 from 67.169.244.46

good workout man! Sorry I couldn't be there, hopefully I can sneak in at least a 4 mile tempo today.

From Trevor Baker on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:31:06 from 155.98.164.36

nice!!! Everyone is going to run well at the UV 1/2!

From SpencerSimpson on Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:30:58 from 50.73.45.89

I love that song...that's a good mix too for an easy four.

From AngieB on Wed, May 29, 2013 at 19:59:50 from 65.130.64.242

I like their kill your heroes song. Have you heard the fall out boy radioactive song too? That's the one I ran hard to today. It's similar to imagine dragons.

From AngieB on Wed, May 29, 2013 at 20:02:09 from 65.130.64.242

Haha take that back that is imagine dragons. But fall out boy has a good song too called My songs know What you did in the dark have you heard that one?

From RileyCook on Wed, May 29, 2013 at 20:18:58 from 65.130.87.168

Angie: As of now I've only bought "Sail" and "Not Your Fault" of Amazon. But I read that "Kill Your Heroes" is a great one too. I sampled it on Amazon and it sounds like a good song...I'll likely purchase it soon.

"Radioactive" is indeed Imagine Dragons and is an excellent song. The other day I heard Evelyn (my two-year old) sing "I feel it in my bones". I started laughing, she must be catching on to the lyrics of Dad's songs.

As for Fallout Boy I don't know much of their stuff except for "Sugar, We're Going Down".

From Matt Poulsen on Wed, May 29, 2013 at 20:21:29 from 98.202.242.213

Nice work, Riley! Lookin' good! Nice doubles this week also.

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