Athletes are still keeping busy, but finding time to answer a few questions for us to help their fans get to know them better. This is our fifth installment with 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon runner-up, Jake Riley. USATF: What is your favorite competition memory so far? Riley: At the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Marathon, realizing, 20 meters from the finish line, in the middle of a roaring crowd, that I was really going to make my first Olympic team. USATF: How do you overcome adversity, especially now when things are so NOT normal? Riley: Focus on the things I can control (sometimes requires a bit of willful denial), get a schedule and stick to it, and make sure I have something else going on that I can lose myself in (I have a part time job and I'm in graduate school). Also, make sure I've got a binge-able show with a lot of seasons I can veg out to when I need a break. USATF: What is your favorite recipe/movie/music? Riley: Hoisin stir-fry bowls / Baby Driver / 90’s hip-hop. USATF: What’s your favorite exercise you can do at home, at a hotel or at the airport? Riley: Drive through - secure one end of a power band to something rigid (door, hand rail, etc.), put the other around your waist. Stand as if you were on the starting line, then drive forward in a controlled manner making sure to activate the glute and to come up on the big toe towards the end. USATF: What do you think is the most misunderstood aspect of your event? Riley: Why is it easier with a pacemaker? If you want to run "x", just go out and do that. USATF: What do you remember about your first competition, and when was it? Riley: City cross country race, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1997 (we lived in Dunedin from '96 to 2000). I was mad they wouldn't let us race barefoot, the race uniform was cotton shorts and a polo t-shirt, it was around the campus of the Otago Boys high school, and I won. I wore the medal to school for the whole next week. USATF: As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Riley: A policeman - marine biologist - basketball player. The classic triple threat. USATF: Who do you admire the most in your event? Riley: Desi Linden - She's really, really good, but also works really hard to get that way and stay that way. I admire her level of consistency and her grittiness in racing so much, and then with all that she's an easy going, funny, cool person with very little ego - I think she's the model for what a professional athlete should be. USATF: Lastly, name one thing you’re grateful for. Riley: Nurses and doctors.