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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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Sat, Jan 09, 2010
Total Distance
15.00

More treadmill.  After six miles I finally got warmed up and enjoyed the rest of the time.   Watched small airboats be launched onto the Utah Lake ice.  I guess it is time to go do some ice runs. 

Running motivation rather low with the cold weather and smog.  The knee is a worry and will likely limit me this year.   Just mild pain when I run and it goes away when I stop.   I need to test it out on a very long run to see if it swells.   Trying to lose weight.  Lost about four pounds of the holiday gain so far.

Race plans for 2010 still uncertain.  Right now I'm leaning NOT to try to get in Hardrock 100 this year.  The cost and time investment is just daunting.   I entered the Wasatch 100 lottery.   I'm really thinking of doing more adventure run this year instead of so many races.   I've been planning a week-long backpack trip with my buddies in August to the Uintas, Mount Lovenia area, very removte.   I've run through there once.   I'd love to run the Uinta trail end-to-end again sometime this year.

P.M.

I ran out on frozen Utah Lake with the dog.  It feels pretty solid, but not quite as thick as last year.  There is about two inches of snow on the surface.  In some places the ice would depress very slightly because of my weight causing a crack in the snow layer to appear, but not the ice.   I couldn't find any thin ice away from the shore.  There were plenty of tracks around including snow mobile tracks.   We ran about five miles.  The dog had a blast and probably ran ten miles total.  Check out the photo album on facebook.

Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 15.00
Comments
From Smooth on Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 23:49:57 from 174.23.217.47

SO HAPPY you got to run on the lake w/ your dog. NICE pic. Everytime I tell someone you run across Utah Lake, they just can't believe it! As a matter of fact, I was telling Teena about you running across Utah Lake just this afternoon on our run. You are AWESOME! Can't wait to read about your 2010 adventures!

From jun on Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 18:57:33 from 63.224.104.209

I like your plan for this year. I've been wanting to get over to the Lovenia / Tokawana area for a few years now and just haven't made it. I doubt I will this year, but maybe next, although I am planning a backpacking trip with my brothers and dad this summer, maybe we'll head over that direction.

I hope that your knee heals. That's a bummer it is still giving you stress. Best of luck with your schedule. Like you, I am planning more adventure runs than races. In fact, I only have two races on my schedule so far this year; Sapper Joe and Pony Express. Not sure what others will pan out. I'm actually looking more forward to the adventure runs. Best of luck.

From crockett on Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 23:17:14 from 71.36.76.225

Looks like our backpacking trip will be in August, a 40 mile loop going in from West Blacks Fork, going aorund Mount Lovenia, 13 miles on the Highline, and then out East Blacks Fork. I went through there during my end-to-end Highline, hit Lovenia around dark. Should be fun. We'll take four days.

From jun on Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:26:24 from 66.239.250.209

Sounds perfect. I need to pull some maps and start finding a good route. I was thinking of possibly going in off of the Mirror Lake Hwy and looping around somewhere from there. I haven't entered the Uintas from the west in years.

From crockett on Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:43:41 from 216.49.181.254

Yep, lots of options going in from Mirror Lake, the various basins, lakes, etc. Downside, is that is the most congested area. Tons of people. On the other side of Rocky Sea Pass they thin out.

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