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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

Instagram 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
13.601.000.000.0014.60

I woke up with my eye swollen shut, the worst it's been since I got shingles. I had planned on meeting the St George Crew (Clyde, Dave, and Logan) at 5:45, so I decided to still go out for a run despite my eye. It probably wasn't the safest drive, but I made it to the Dixie Center and met the guys.

After a few miles my eye started to open up more and I could see out of it a little better. The run was great, mostly a nice leisurely pace with a few pickups. They are a great group of guys to run with, the time went by quickly with a few good laughs.

My knee never hurt too badly during the run, so the two days off with shingles was beneficial to the knee. It's not healed fully but I hope it's on its way. I also think this run somehow helped my eye a lot with the shingles. Friday was completely miserable and my eye hurt all day long. I just wanted to keep my eyes closed the entire day. Saturday morning was bad too but during the run it got increasingly better and by Saturday night it improved a lot. It's still swollen but it's substantially better than it was, maybe the anti-viral is finally kicking in. I'm not looking forward to the blisters and scabs on my eyelid, eyebrow, and the rest of the area though!

I'm not high on my hopes for PHX anymore. I have missed a decent amount of volume with the knee. The shingles aren't as bad as a cold or the flu for zapping energy, but I'm definitely more tired and fatigued than when I'm fully healthy. I've also gained a few pounds by not changing my eating habits with the drop of volume the last three weeks. I thought I had read that eating tons of junk food, sugar, and eating out was good for shingles, but then realized I made that up when it was too late! But, I'm ok with PHX not going perfectly, if nothing else it will serve as a great stimulus for Boston and help me to figure out where I'm lacking and what I need to work on in the next six weeks. Also a poor performance more so than a great one will fuel my internal fire to run well at Boston. Don't get me wrong I am still all in on PHX and will do my best, but it may serve as a win-win regardless the outcome.

Brooks Pure Cadence 3 Miles: 14.60
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Matt Poulsen on Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 15:29:09 from 50.168.224.197

Great attitude, Riley! Sometimes going into a race without putting any pressure on yourself (in spite of not being quite up to par physically), can lead to a great race (even surprisingly so). Best of luck with the shingles. Sounds absolutely miserable.

From Kassi on Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 15:46:17 from 155.97.240.30

Glad you made it out for a run today and the knee felt good! Such a bummer deal with Shingles. But Boston is the goal and PHX will still be a great race for you.

From Steve on Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 19:14:45 from 66.87.117.64

That sucks. Sorry man!

From Jake K on Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 14:53:37 from 199.190.170.30

If you run really well this weekend, I wouldn't try to get another virus before Boston. That wouldn't be worth the risk :-)

Seriously though... I'm pretty sure you are due like a decade of not getting sick prior to a race after this. I hadn't heard of anyone getting shingles until last week, and now I've heard of like 5 people that have it. Weird.

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