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December 22, 2024

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Location:

Saratoga Springs,UT,

Member Since:

Jan 31, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2016 Finished 12 100-milers during the year.  86 career 100-mile finishes, 9th in the world.   First person to do 6 consecutive summits of Mount Timpanogos.  Won Crooked Road 24-hour race. Achieved the 5th, 6th, and 8th fastest 100-mile times in the world for runners age 57+ for the year.

2013  First person to bag the six highest Wasatch peaks in one day. First and only person to do a Kings Peak double (highest peak in Utah).  I've now accomplished it four times. 

2010 - Overall first place Across the Years 48-hour run (187 miles), Overall first place Pony Express Traill 100.

2009 - Utah State Grand Masters 5K champion (Road Runners Club of America).  National 100-mile Grand Masters Champion (Road Runners Club of America). USATF 100-mile National Champion for age 50-54.

2006 - Set record of five consecutive Timpanogos Summits ("A record for the criminally insane")  See: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=42

2007 - Summited 7 Utah 13-ers in one day.  See: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=14 

Only person to have finished nine different 100-mile races in Utah: Wasatch, Bear, Moab, Pony Express Trail, Buffalo Run, Salt Flats, Bryce, Monument Valley, Capitol Reef.

PRs - all accomplished when over 50 years old

5K - 19:51 - 2010 Run to Walk 5K

10K - 42:04 - 2010 Smile Center

1/2 Marathon: 1:29:13 - 2011 Utah Valley

Marathon - 3:23:43 - 2010 Ogden Marathon

50K - 4:38 - 2010 Across the Years split

50-mile - 8:07 - 2010 Across the Years split

100K - 10:49 - 2010 Across The Years split

12-hours 67.1 miles - 2010 Across The Years split

100-mile 19:40 - 2011 Across the Years split

24-hours 117.8 miles - 2011 Across the Years split

48-hours 187.033 miles - 2010 Across the Years

Long-Term Running Goals:

I would like to keep running ultras into my 60s. 

Personal:

Details at: http://www.crockettclan.org/ultras/ultracrockett.pdf Married with six kids and six grandchildren.  Started running at the age of 46 in 2004.  My first race since Junior High days was a 50K. I skipped the shorter road stuff and went straight to ultramarathons.  I started as a back-of-the packer, but have progressed to a top-10-percent ultra finisher.  Wish I would have started running at a much earlier age.  Have had several articles published in national running magazines.  Check out my running adventure blog at www.crockettclan.org/blog

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Another day at the doctor.  Today they x-rayed the elbow.  Shoot....not busted.  It would have been cool to say I ran Wasatch with a busted elbow.  For the second day they shot up my butt with antibiotics and in the other butt today a corizone shot.  Seems like it is starting to work, the swelling is coming down.  Tomorrow I go back in for Day 3 and they should have the culture results back so they will know which antibiotic I should be taking.   I had worries that this would keep me away from Virgil Crest 100 next week, but now I'm encourage.  Last night I was up almost all night in pain.  I've been looking at catlogs for a nice hook.

Virgil Crest 100.  That area got hit hard by the hurricane and still is very wet.  Looks like more rain the two days before the race and maybe race day too.  Looks like my kind of race.  I certainly have had plenty of mud slogging training this year.

On the downside, I see I scheduled my return flight for Sunday, so I sure better finish by 29 hours, because I then have to drive 4 hours to catch the return plane in Philly, then fly a very long flight home.  This could be very ugly.  Last time I tried do to this on the day I finished Vermont it was pretty bad.  The people on the plane thought I was going to die.

Comments
From Jake K on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 19:06:36 from 155.100.226.53

I went to college out that way (Colgate). Heading down to sea level should be a nice change!

The 4 hr drive is going to be harder than the 100 mile run!

From crockett on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 19:11:42 from 216.49.181.254

Jake: Yep, I have more fear about that drive than the race. I've done it before, painful. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law lives in Hamilton, NY. Been there many times.

From Jake K on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 19:16:09 from 155.100.226.53

Very cool. It is a great little town.

From crockett on Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 19:17:19 from 216.49.181.254

I lived in upstate NY for 11 years. Four of my kids were born there. It will be fun to return, even for a quick run.

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