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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
Sat, Dec 13, 2014
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.000.000.000.004.00

4 miles easy with Denver from my parents' house, avg pace 7:21. There was a light rain, but it wasn't too bad and still in the 40s. We finished up with some abs, hip exercises, and pushups.

Brooks Transcend Miles: 4.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Josh E on Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:26:21 from 75.169.25.203

Do you think your knee pain may have originated in the hip?

From RileyCook on Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:49:08 from 73.52.134.194

I think weak hips contribute to IT Band Syndrome. Or rather I think strong hips can help alleviate some of the IT Band tightness. If I had stronger hips before my IT Band Syndrome, who knows, maybe I could've avoided such a long lay-off and surgery.

From Fritz on Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 13:01:55 from 67.2.109.85

Good to see you back running Riley. I am not sure if you consider glutes part of your hips but I think a big reason why I got ITBS a couple of times is because of glute weakness and/or inactivity.

http://www.runnersworld.com/race-training/hibernating-heinies

It's not just quads and hip flexors that take up the slack. As Cheever found, levers and pulleys all the way down the leg can be affected. IT band soreness, pain in the front of the knee, and tight calves may be signs of compensation for nonfiring glutes. An athlete complaining of anterior knee pain whose knee collapses inward (knock-kneed) is a prime candidate, Rakow says. "Glutes are the rotator cuff of the pelvis, so when they're not firing, the femur rotates inward instead of swinging straight forward."

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