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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 swam 2.5 miles before work this morning.  This is the furthest I have ever swam in one stretch and it felt pretty easy.  That boggles my mind because I have only been swimming for one week.  In the past I thought it takes weeks to work up the swiming endurance and I thought I had miserable upper body strength, but I guess, not so.  The shoulders feel great and I have no soreness at all.  Perhaps my technique is better than in the past.

My split quarter mile (400 meter) times today were: 10:19, 10:25, 10:54, 11:03 for 42:41 for mile 1.  9:46, 11:17, 11:05, 10:43 for 42:51 for mile 2.   10:57, and 11:11 for the last two splits.   I did take a little break after the miles to drink Gatorade.   Those splits are a good improvement from yesterday.   I through in some flip turns now and then to improve the speed.

The pool got pretty crowded during my last few laps as it approached 6:00 a.m.  There were eight people in the pool trying to swim laps.

The foot progress is discouraging.   I checked the foot last night like the doctor did and the tendon is still pretty painful but the strength is better than last Thursday.   I can tell if I tried to start running again now, I wouldn't last long and would really irritate the tendon.   This is a very slow heal process.  I just hope it can heal without surgery.

Comments
From jun on Tue, May 05, 2009 at 16:44:59 from 66.239.250.209

Are you starting to question running Ogden or are you still pretty solid on that?

From crockett on Tue, May 05, 2009 at 16:55:44 from 216.49.181.128

Yes, starting to question Ogden. Coincidentally today someone asked on the ultrarunning list about the very same injury I have. People piped in that it took months to recover from. Early next week I'll test it out.

From Bec on Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:08:59 from 205.123.38.151

I am really sorry about the tendon. Injuries are frustrating, I'm facing one as well. Keep up the swimming, that will help maintain a good fitness level.

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