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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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I am a Generation Ucan elite athlete

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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

Wed, Jun 17, 2015

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
16.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	16.00

BEN LOMOND PEAK FKT ATTEMPT

I woke up at 3:50 and got ready and headed out to meet Bret and Ken at the North Ogden Divide Trailhead. Ben and Jon had met 20 minutes earlier to get a head start on us, so that we would all end up at the summit around the same time. Ken ended up having to bail, and Jon had to turn around early to get home on time. So in the end only Ben, Bret, and I made the summit.

Bret had the FKT, or Strava CR, coming into the day, but I was convinced I had the fastest moving time (last time I ran it I stopped several times to wait for others). So Bret and I ran together and chatted most of the way up on a beautiful morning. We got within a mile of the summit before the sun crested to mountains to the East over the Ogden Valley.

Once we hit the steep section at the end Bret fell behind a bit and I went on to summit in 1:15:50, which is now the CR. It was 1:20 before and my personal best was 1:23 (but that included stops). Ben made the summit at almost the exact time as Bret, so the timing worked out great. We took a couple photos on top with Ben's GoPro and then headed back down. It was an awesome morning out there. Overall pace was 8:52/mile, as we took the descent rather easy.

Brooks Adrenaline ASR 10 GTX Miles: 16.00

Weight: 155.40

Comments

From RustyTF2 on Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 13:37:34 from 67.41.224.121

Man what a run/journey! I tried running up the Y as part of my run yesterday and had to give up and hike. Is this run/hike similar to running Timp?

From RileyCook on Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 14:15:15 from 73.52.134.194

Thanks Taylor! Ben Lomond is a mile longer to the summit, but the overall grade is lower. I think Timp gains 4700 and Ben Lomond is 3700. Timp is also almost 2,000 feet higher in elevation (11,700 vs 9,700). But Ben Lomond is as high as we have up this way.

So, Timp would be a slower pace but for one less mile, if that makes sense.

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