Riley Masters Shares His Wisdom On Consistency, Leadership, and Lessons He Learned Throughout His Career
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In episode thirty-three of The Running Effect (with Dominic Schlueter), we speak with Riley Masters. We go through his incredible Hall of Fame career in Maine, his collegiate years (first at Maine and then Oklahoma), and then his professional years with Brooks and Nike. We hear his thoughts on consistency, leadership, and some of the lessons he's learned during his career.
He also gives us his thoughts on Track and Field in 2021, what it's like to have his wife still running, and Gold Hill vs Magnolia Road.
Show Notes
-Riley's Profile: https://rileymasters.runnerspace.com/
-Riley's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/riley_masters/?hl=en
-Riley's Coaching Website: https://masterstrainingsystems.com/
-Music used for intro/outro: https://youtu.be/hnkUvwOHaf0
God bless you all!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Running Effect with Dominic Schleader. I'm your host, Dominic, |
| 0:15.9 | and today we have a very special episode with Riley Masters. In this episode, we go through Riley's career. |
| 0:24.0 | In high school, he ran in Maine, so we get a little history lesson on Maine, some of the amazing |
| 0:29.5 | athletes to come out of there. And Riley was certainly one of those. He won, I believe, three |
| 0:34.6 | individual state titles at Bangor High School, and then he won a few state |
| 0:38.4 | titles as a team as well, which is really, really cool. So we go into some of those stories, |
| 0:43.4 | but we also go into his years at the University of Maine, where he, I believe, became the fifth |
| 0:49.5 | athlete to ever break four minutes from Maine, which is a really cool story. We go through some of his other |
| 0:55.4 | highlights in college, which include he transferred to Oklahoma. He had one of the fastest 1,500 |
| 1:01.6 | meter times in the NCAA. He placed really high up at NCAA meets, becoming a multi-time All-American, |
| 1:09.0 | all that good stuff. But then we also go into his professional |
| 1:12.1 | years with the Brooks Beasts, Nike. We get some of his takes on running in 2021. But we also ask |
| 1:19.1 | insightful, more thoughtful questions like his thoughts on consistency, process over outcomes, |
| 1:25.4 | and some of those kind of things. One of my favorite parts of the episode |
| 1:30.2 | during the latter part of his career, he was coached by Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs. |
| 1:35.9 | So he goes into kind of that time with them, some of his thoughts on Magnolia Road versus |
| 1:41.6 | Gold Hill running with the Buffaloes and then some of the |
| 1:45.0 | principals he thinks that make Colorado a really good running program. So that's really, |
| 1:50.3 | really fun to hear and listen to and kind of glean inspiration and motivation from that. But then we |
| 1:55.9 | also top it off with the rapid fire questions, which is really, really fun. So thank you so much to Riley for doing |
| 2:03.0 | this show with me. I really appreciate it. And also just a note, we definitely had some technical |
| 2:08.1 | difficulties in this one. So thank you, Riley, for being so patient with me. And if some of his |
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