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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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22.00

Good workout this morning.  First ten miles on the treadmill,  Next went to the high school and ran stairs in the stadium.  2,000 stairs up and down.  Up the 36 stairs I would try to sprint them as fast as I could without tripping, then used a handrail going down so I wouldn't face plant.  Good hill repeats.   Ran about the grassing fields for awhile.  Then went to a high knoll over the Ranches, above Pony Express elementary.  The south-facing slope was dry and I did lots of hill repeats.  Straight up is very steep and I could keep a jog up it. Then going down I would just run all over the slope, using deer trails and creating my own.  The bush is low because of a fire there years ago, so you can run anywhere.  Plenty of rocks to make it technical.   I had a great time but probably looked like a nut to all the residents down below.   Looks like in another week all the trails on the ridges nearby should be ready to run.

Beautiful afternoon, but a cold wind.  I went back and ran all over the knoll which I will call Eagle Top since a road right by it is named that.   The south slope was protected nicely from the wind so I had a nice 4-mile run.


Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 22.00
Comments
From Neasts on Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 18:53:12 from 75.169.62.136

My friends and I ran right by there on Golden Eagle today. We call it the hill we've never run on before, and my daughter calls it the hill with rocks that look like chairs.(?) :-) I like your name for it, though, and great idea getting hill repeats in. I may copy sometime.

From crockett on Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 20:18:54 from 97.117.4.244

Yep, I've always run by it too, always looked hot and steep.

From Jon on Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 18:54:34 from 107.203.52.135

And, just like that, Davy's back.

From crockett on Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 19:12:53 from 97.117.4.244

Well, not totally back. Still soreness, and not pushing it faster than 8:30 pace. But progress.

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