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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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Entered the lottery for Cascade Crest 100.  If I don't get in, I'll likely do Plain 100 again.  I just enjoy both of those more than Wasatch.  Plain is a lot tougher than Wasatch and CCC100 is both tough and amazing variations of trails. Wasatch course is getting somewhat boring after running it both racing, pacing, and training, probably about 6 times now.  I seems to get bored with a race after about six times.  That is probably why I'm not going back to Bighorn or Tahoe Rim this year either.

I've been researching medical papers about my problem.  My main source of worry is the shin pain.  It can be classified as a shin split, but it is unusually high on the shin and now pretty big.  Two muscles send attachments to those areas, both are calf muscles.  So the calf is likely doing the pulling.  Strange because I've had no calf soreness or tightness.  But my calves are probably over-developed and causing grief.  I don't rule out a stress fracture.  New stress fractures often don't show up on x-rays until several weeks later.  But it doesn't matter, the treatment for either a stress fracture and periosteum problems in that area are the same.  Rest and patience.   Cause seems to always point to over-pronation problems.  I know, I know.  That leg is a bother, swings from the hip wrong and seems to be shorter than the other leg. 

I'll start swimming again tomorrow.  Other than that leg, I feel totally recovered already from RR100.   Worst is probably upper body soreness from using the trekking poles for 9+ hours.

p.m.  A walk with the dog.  Top sustained pace today, keeping the pain the same was about 21:00 pace.   That is progress.   I needed to stop several times to bring down the pain.  Brought back memories of the last 40 miles of RR100.

Comments
From Jim Kern on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:53:01 from 199.19.250.39

Treatment: Rest and Patience? Yeah, two of your strong points.

From Dale on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 19:09:39 from 69.10.215.11

Wasn't it just a few months ago that you said you probably wouldn't run CCC100 again? :)

From crockett on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 19:57:36 from 71.32.233.205

Yes, funny how you forget the bad times quickly. If I get in CCC100, I'll do better with heat training. The heat wiped me out in the first couple hours.

From Dale on Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:46:04 from 69.10.215.11

Better start heat training.....

http://ultrasignup.com/entrants_event.aspx?did=15504

Of course, all that means is that this year will be rainy and cold.

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