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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.240.004.002.009.24

INTERVALS

Intervals around the base pond loop.  This loop is just over a mile long and one half is very hilly and the other half is very flat.  I started with mile repeats, doing the hillly half as the first half of the repeat.  The first half was consistently 5 seconds slower than the second half.  After four mile repeats I finished up with 4 half mile repeats on the flat side of the pond. 

Mile repeats (1:15 rest in between): 5:00, 5:03, 5:04, 5:06

3 minutes rest

Half-mile repeats (1:15 rest in between): 2:24, 2:25, 2:24, 2:21

The toughest part of the workout was the low rest in between repeats.  I wanted to run at 5:08 pace with 1:00 rest, but after I started quickly I changed it to 1:15 rest and shot for 5:04-ish.

 

Saucony Fastwich (Red) Miles: 9.24
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Jake K on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:32:22 from 155.100.226.191

Nice workout. Lets see some splits like that at the end of the marathon next weekend!! :-)

From RileyCook on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:42:10 from 132.3.45.68

Thanks Jake. If I saw splits in the 530s at the end of the marathon next week I'd be thrilled.

From AngieB on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:07:27 from 75.162.189.226

Great workout Riley! Your ready!

From Derek D on Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 20:22:17 from 68.109.130.51

Good looking workout Riley. I'm sure you've heard all about St. George up and down from your running buddies but I firmly believe its a neg split course. I ran 1:19/1:16 and Allison ran something like 1:30/1:25. If you run a comfortable first half you'll set yourself up really nicely for a great time. It looks like your ready to run a good one.

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