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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.or g/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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Tue, Aug 09, 2011

Total Distance

14.00

Found my journal I wrote as a 18-year-old freshman at BYU. Read in it how I ran consistantly for a couple weeks. With just that minimal effort I clocked a 5:30 mile and a 9:00 1.5 mile. I wrote that going over two miles just seemed too far. I soon quit running. Too bad that I didn't recognize that I actually had some talent for running. I could have run some fast 5Ks back then if I really trained.

Got up at 4:30 a.m. in Midway and again did another loop, climbing up to the top of the ridge, running down the road and then going up to the location of the Pot Bottom, following the Wasatch 100 course for the next several miles and then bailing out to head back to the condo. It was a great morning run. New route in Blue.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 14.00

Comments

From Kelli on Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:30:11 from 71.219.67.82

Hey, I was there running yesterday! We started at Brighton and ran to Midway. That descent into Midway was brutal for me. Slippery darn rocks. Actually, there were other parts that were worse, but that was the end so it felt awful!

Midway is beautiful, I had actually never been there before. The view before we headed down was amazing!

Enjoy your running!

From crockett on Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:35:06 from 71.36.82.5

Wow, that is a long way. Did you follow the Wasatch course or just cut over to Midway from Pole Line Pass? I did see foot prints in the valley near Pot Bottom and a stray S-cap on the trail.

Yep, those rocks are painful at the end of Wasatch. I took them slow this morning.

From Kelli on Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 20:08:23 from 71.219.67.82

We were following the course, but when we got to Sunset Pass we went the wrong way (downhill, past some cabins and to some ski lifts before we figured it out). So, we had to head back and that added about 3 and a half miles to our day. We had a time limit (rides coming to pick us up in Midway) and with all of our map reading and navigation issues, we had to cut some of the Wasatch 100 course off. You know the course better than I for sure, so maybe you can figure out where that was! At some point, you do a big loop that we cut off (according to our maps). We thought it would be about 6 miles, but it must be longer. Anyway, we did not run all the way to the Homestead, we just stopped at the golf course and called it a day. Our ride was there. ;o)

From Kelli on Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 20:09:49 from 71.219.67.82

OH, and the foot prints could have been ours (or the many other people who run this trail every weekend), but never the trash!!!! NEVER! We carried all of our trash in our packs. Every last drop. ;o)

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