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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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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
74.3013.0013.100.00100.40
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 16 Miles: 30.00Altra Provision 2 Miles: 10.75Hoka One One Constant Miles: 13.10Brooks Transcend 2 Miles: 3.45Brooks Pure Cadence 4 Blue Miles: 19.90Brooks Adrenaline GTS Miles: 8.00Asics DS Racer 10 Miles: 15.20
Weight: 150.08
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
23.000.000.000.0023.00

AM: 17 miles easy with Ken, avg pace 6:46/mile. Jon joined us for the first three miles or so. Denver and Matt met us but ran a bit easier.

PM: 6 miles easy, avg pace 6:44/mile.

Brooks Adrenaline GTS 16 Miles: 17.00Altra Provision 2 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 150.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.100.000.000.0013.10

13.1 miles with Ken, Denver, and Matt, avg pace 7:18/mile. It was mostly on roads, back of the Terrace, back to Smiths, to Ken's house and then up 29th to trails up Waterfall Canyon to the BST and back to Smiths.

Hoka One One Constant Miles: 13.10
Weight: 149.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.3513.000.000.0023.35

AM: 6-5-4-3-2-1 KILOMETER BREAKDOWN WITH 1K MODERATE REST

Same as last week...met Ken and Ben at 5. We warmed up 4k and then started the workout. I didn't really even set goal paces. Just anything under 5:20-5:25 for the whole workout was good enough. My stomach was upset and I had to stop a few times for bathrooms but other than that the energy was good and the pace solid. 6k - 19:33 or 5:14/mile 5k - 16:09 or 5:12/mile 4k - 13:09 or 5:17/mile 3k - 9:42 or 5:12/mile 2k - 6:30 or 5:14/mile 1k - 3:10 or 5:06/mile.

PM: 3.45 mile shakeout, avg pace 7:12/mile.

Brooks Transcend 2 Miles: 3.45Brooks Pure Cadence 4 Blue Miles: 19.90
Weight: 149.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.750.000.000.0012.75

AM: 8 miles easy, avg pace 7:12/mile.

PM: 4.75 miles. 1.55 miles to Hannah's soccer game and then another 3.2 miles in between hers and Evelyn's game, avg pace 6:43/mile.

Brooks Adrenaline GTS 16 Miles: 8.00Altra Provision 2 Miles: 4.75
Weight: 150.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles easy, avg pace 6:46/mile.

Brooks Adrenaline GTS Miles: 8.00
Weight: 150.40
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Race: Southern Utah Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:07:52, Place overall: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.100.0013.100.0020.20

SOUTHERN UTAH HALF MARATHON

Amy and I went down to St George to run the Southern Utah Half Marathon this weekend. I didn't really have any time goals in mind. This is by far the most mileage I've done in a week leading into a race and I had a pretty big workout on Wednesday, so I didn't really expect anything special.

The temperature was great, but the wind was coming pretty strong from the Southwest and which direction did our race head in? Southwest! Everyone talked about how it would be a headwind for 13.1 miles, but in reality it wasn't quite that bad, it was only like 12.5 miles of headwind ;)

The race started and there was a kid from Las Vegas that took to the lead immediately. I caught up to him and we ran side by side for 4.5 miles. The first 3 miles of the race are very downhill. Last year I bombed down those and it made the rest of the race pretty miserable. So this year I went conservative, about 40 seconds slower this year for those three miles.

Around 4.5 miles into the race the other guy dropped back a bit so I surged up a small hill to get a gap. From there the gap increased and I was able to run pretty strong to the end. The wind slowed things down a bit (it seemed strongest in miles 1-3 and 10-13), but the result was still pretty good and I am happy that I was able to run so well off of the high mileage and the big workouts. After the race, I waited to watch Amy finish and it was the highlight of the morning seeing her win! I was so proud of her, just awesome.

Huge shoutout to Steve Hooper and his team at St George Running Center for putting on another great race. If you guys haven't run this race yet, you're missing out!

Splits: 5:00 5:03 4:57 5:16 5:03 5:11 5:04 5:07 5:09 5:08 5:13 5:19 5:11 and 5:11 pace for the end.

Asics DS Racer 10 Miles: 15.20Brooks Adrenaline GTS 16 Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
74.3013.0013.100.00100.40
Brooks Adrenaline GTS 16 Miles: 30.00Altra Provision 2 Miles: 10.75Hoka One One Constant Miles: 13.10Brooks Transcend 2 Miles: 3.45Brooks Pure Cadence 4 Blue Miles: 19.90Brooks Adrenaline GTS Miles: 8.00Asics DS Racer 10 Miles: 15.20
Weight: 150.08
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