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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 a mile in the pool, tapering....not running.   Then I tried to do a little heat training in anticipation of my little 100-mile run this weekend in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming (near Montana).  Here's what I did.  I spent time in the hot tub (around 104 degrees).   I observed that my resting heart rate (well, after the mile swim), was about 85-90 bpm in that heat.   I tried to pump it up by doing kicking.  I could get it up around 120-130 bpm, but it wasn't enjoyable in that heat.  I just couldn't sustain it very long so I would back off and then try again.   I was in there for 20 minutes.   That was an interesting workout and I have to believe it really helps the body adjust to heat stress.  I'll try to do this some more.

Weight: 176.

Comments
From Smooth on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 15:17:59 from 71.36.79.7

WAY to prepare for the heat. Did you say running in the 90's at mile 95 on Sat. afternoon? YIKES!!! Makes my little WBR look like a birthday party! :)How's that ankle today?

From crockett on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 20:06:24 from 71.36.74.245

Have loads of fun at WBR. I've never done it, and hope to do it one day. The best part is being with running friends, working together during an event. WBR always falls on the same day as the Bighorn 100, so I always have to choose.

The ankle is doing a little bit better today. I'll have some pain but the key is to avoid badly twisting it again.

From Maurine/Tarzan on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:26:09 from 63.255.172.2

Have you talked to a doctor about a cortisone injection to see if that would help with the healing?

From crockett on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:36:17 from 216.49.181.128

No, I avoid cortisone shots if possible because of the damage they can also do to tendons. The ankle feels better this week than last, do healing continues.

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