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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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I'm getting very mentally ready for Across the Years 48-hour run. Just three days to go! I've worked on my race strategy.  Two approaches, steady pace, vs. fast start and then slower later.   I've read reports and looked at splits of the best in the sport and decided to stick with the approach I usually use, run fast, bank the miles, and then hold on.  For me, if I start slowly, I tend to stay slow, and then later on just go even slower, losing the hope for a dream race.

So, I've worked on a pacing strategy that tracks each 10K.  For each 10K, I can decrease my pace by 2 minutes. My dream goal is 170 miles.  My ultra dream goal is 200.  So the pace chart zeros in on the ultra dream goal and we will see how I do.  When I ran Pony Express 100 in October I was ahead of this pace until about the 50-mile mark when the heat was slamming me.  Good news!  No heat at ATY.  A cold front is coming in.  High temp will be 62 and low of 27.  Some chance of rain.  This is ideal for me.  At night runners will slow down because of the cold. I need to use all my cold night training and keep the pace going.

There will be a few world-class runners starting on the same day as I am.  It will be fun to try to keep up with them for awhile.

I'll focus on my lap times.   Each lap is 500 meters (or 1/2 K). I'll try to keep my lap times under 4 minutes for the first 75 miles, and then under 5 minutes for the next 60 miles.  The only time I should go over 6 minutes is when I need to stop for some reason (bathroom, clothes change, short rest, etc.)

In 2010, my lap times went way down during the night.  I didn't dress warm enough and got very drowsy.

In 2008, I ran the ATY 24-hour race.  You can see how I did then against my 2010 pace goals.

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Kilos Miles Lap # elapsed clock lap times mile pace 2008
10K 6.21 20 0:56:00 9:56 AM 0:02:48 0:09:01 0:50:52
20K 12.43 40 1:54:00 10:54 AM 0:02:54 0:09:20 1:47:26
30K 18.64 60 2:54:00 11:54 AM 0:03:00 0:09:39 2:45:17
40K 24.85 80 3:56:00 12:56 PM 0:03:06 0:09:59 3:54:15
50K 31.07 100 5:00:00 2:00 PM 0:03:12 0:10:18 5:02:09
60K 37.28 120 6:08:00 3:08 PM 0:03:24 0:10:57 6:23:55
70K 43.50 140 7:18:00 4:18 PM 0:03:30 0:11:16 7:39:11
80K 49.71 160 8:30:00 5:30 PM 0:03:36 0:11:35 8:56:32
90K 55.92 180 9:44:00 6:44 PM 0:03:42 0:11:55 10:14:54
100K 62.14 200 11:00:00 8:00 PM 0:03:48 0:12:14 11:54:06
110K 68.35 220 12:18:00 9:18 PM 0:03:54 0:12:33 13:21:38
120K 74.56 240 13:38:00 10:38 PM 0:04:00 0:12:52 14:57:09
130K 80.78 260 15:00:00 12:00 AM 0:04:06 0:13:12 16:42:14
140K 86.99 280 16:24:00 1:24 AM 0:04:12 0:13:31 18:56:24
150K 93.21 300 17:50:00 2:50 AM 0:04:18 0:13:50 20:48:14
160K 99.42 320 19:18:00 4:18 AM 0:04:24 0:14:10 22:37:59
170K 105.63 340 20:48:00 5:48 AM 0:04:30 0:14:29 23:59:12
180K 111.85 360 22:20:00 7:20 AM 0:04:36 0:14:48
190K 118.06 380 23:54:00 8:54 AM 0:04:42 0:15:08
200K 124.27 400 25:30:00 10:30 AM 0:04:48 0:15:27
210K 130.49 420 27:08:00 12:08 PM 0:04:54 0:15:46
220K 136.70 440 28:48:00 1:48 PM 0:05:00 0:16:06
230K 142.92 460 30:30:00 3:30 PM 0:05:06 0:16:25
240K 149.13 480 32:14:00 5:14 PM 0:05:12 0:16:44
250K 155.34 500 34:00:00 7:00 PM 0:05:18 0:17:04
260K 161.56 520 35:48:00 8:48 PM 0:05:24 0:17:23
270K 167.77 540 37:38:00 10:38 PM 0:05:30 0:17:42
280K 173.98 560 39:30:00 12:30 AM 0:05:36 0:18:01
290K 180.20 580 41:24:00 2:24 AM 0:05:42 0:18:21
300K 186.41 600 43:20:00 4:20 AM 0:05:48 0:18:40

 

Comments
From jun on Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 19:29:36 from 97.126.228.50

I doubt we'll see another post from you prior to race day. Good luck. I'll be tracking you online.

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