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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
7.505.000.500.0013.00

13 Miles @ 6:01 avg pace.  The plan was to do 17 miles with 7.5 miles @ 5:30 pace, but I ran out of time.  My wife is out of town for a funeral and my sister could only watch my daughter until 10:45, and I simply didn't get started on my run soon enough.  But it was still a good run. 

Met Ken Richardson, my brother Jared, and his friend Delia at 8:05 to carpool up to Morgan Valley, where we planned to run on some rolling hills.  We dropped Jared and Delia off at the start to give them a headstart and then Ken and I dropped a car off 7 miles out.  Finally, Ken and I got started and Ken ran the first 7 miles with me to his car.  We ran that stretch in 45:09.  He stopped there, as he only planned on 7, and picked up Jared and Delia.  Then the three of them drove alongside me for the next 6 miles.  I ran a 5.5 mile tempo on this stretch with splits of 526 524 531 (this mile was interrupted by a huge herd of cattle that took up the entire road! I thought I was going to get trampled!) 527 530 and 229 for the last 0.5 followed by 0.5 mile cooldown.  Then I raced back to pick up my daughter just in the nick of time.  Then we all went and got a nice breakfast...great morning.

Asics 2170 Miles: 13.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Derek D on Sun, May 13, 2012 at 16:08:01 from 68.109.129.12

Great run Riley! I went to Weber also and My wife Allison Adams ran at Weber when you were there. We live in Arizona now. Good to see you on here.

From RileyCook on Sun, May 13, 2012 at 21:33:36 from 65.130.70.180

Thanks Derek. Yeah I think Allison was running there my true freshman year (fall '99 to spring '00) before I left on a mission. If I recall, she was a fast 800M runner? But I think she may have been done when I got back to Weber in Fall of 2003?

Anyway, good to hear from you and I look forward to following your blog and running. Looks like you had a solid 20-miler today.

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