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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 18, 2009

Total Distance

14.00

I was out running a little before 3:00 a.m. Went up into the Lake Mountain foothills to find a trail loop I failed to fully locate last week. I succeeded this time. It is a 1.7 mile loop with about 250 elevation climb. I started the loop in the northeast corner and headed south up a canyon, a steady climb, ending with a short steep climb up onto a ridge. Here is where I lost the trial last week. The grass is high and when I looked closer, I could see a double track road that traversed around the ridge into the next canyon. It was pretty level, but challenging because of the dry grass, sometimes waist-high. But the grass was sparse enough and would just hit against my legs in that section. Once in the next canyon, it is a nice fast descent down the canyon to the main road that runs along the Church farm. I needed to hop over a log fence. I think the fence was put up about eight years ago. That explains why the grassy road doesn't receive traffic anymore. But it is great for running.

I ran the loop six times. My times were: 23:42, 20:31, 20:02, 18:39, 20:54, and 28:17. So my fastest loop was just a little faster than an 11-minute mile. That shows how tough the loop was. I'm sure I could do it quite a bit faster during the day, but with the dark, at times my flashlight wasn't good enough to illuminate the trail through the grass, so I just had to feel the trail. It was a good workout. Working the climbs felt good.

I was able to watch the moon, just a sliver, rise above the Wasatch mountains, with Venus above it. Orion was low in the sky to the right. As I finished, there additionally was a glow behind the mountains as the dawn was arriving. Not a cloud in the sky.

Montrail Wildwood - Red Miles: 14.00

Comments

From Maurine/Tarzan on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:49:32 from 63.255.172.2

Sounds pretty. Do you spend a lot of time looking for trails on Google Earth - or do you find what you think are trails and then research them?

From crockett on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 14:21:57 from 216.49.181.254

I use Google Earth to look for things in the hills near my house. I've probably found nearly everything, but I get bored by running the same routes, so this helps me pick new things. For the past few weeks I haven't duplicated any morning routes. Something new each time.

From jun on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:17:59 from 66.239.250.209

Great workout. I'm always impressed by your ability to run in circles. After telling my wife about our Timp trip and my poor lighting and results, she has committed me to getting a better light. I found the one you have on line and will hopefully pick one up as soon as we get financially settled (by that, I mean pay tuition and books for my wife, get the kidlets settled into day care again, and get my oldest son's braces on). While she hates the idea of spending that much on a flashlight, she hates the thought of me faceplanting into a rock even more. Weird.

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