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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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18.00

Time to get back to work.  Focus now is on Bighorn 100 which is a little over three weeks away.  It may be the snow course used in '08 which still had just as much climbing but was faster because it has more dirt road.  I liked that course.

So, before that, I have Squaw Peak 50, which will be a revised course, easier and hotter. and the next week after that I entered Utah Valley Half.  Last year I won my age group there which was nice.  It won't happen this year.  Dan Kerns who placed 3rd at Ogden Marathon is in it.  He had a 1:27 half split.  I can't even begin to touch that.  Keith Barton is also in it. Keith will be running SP50, his first 50, so we'll see if he can recover in a week.  I've never beat either of these guys, so it should be competitive this year.

Hit the treadmill.  Hills.  6 x 9:00 x 15-18%.  Then ran 5 outdoors.  Plan to run some at lunchtime.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 18.00
Comments
From jun on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:03:09 from 97.126.239.12

Is there a map of the revised course floating around. I heard it was changed.

I talked to Karl yesterday and he had heard rumors about a change, but hadn't heard from John yet about moving the aid station Karl was supposed to manage. He thought that was funny.

From crockett on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:23:17 from 216.49.181.254

John sent out the course yesterday. I deleted the email because it was so huge. Had amazing photos of flood damage taking place on the course. Course is pretty simple. Same course up to Hope Campground, to Rock Canyon, and then down Rock Canyon to the BoSho. Bosho all the way to Spring Canyon. Up Spring Canyon hit the dirt road down on the usual course to the Pole Canyon aid station. Then back the way you came. New aid stations probably at bottom of Rock Canyon, another along BoSho, and one at the bottom of Spring Canyon.

From jun on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:36:46 from 97.126.239.12

Thanks for the visual, I can definitely picture nearly every part of that course. So an out and back, huh? That shouldn't be a problem, but it's definitely a completely different race.

You're right in saying it should be hotter, but don't you think without climbs like Windy Pass that it will be easier and faster overall? I would think so. Not that that is a bad thing, but obviously a different race all together.

From crockett on Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:56:57 from 216.49.181.254

Yes, faster but could be pretty hot in the afternoon coming back. Some years it would get really bad going up the Hobble Creek Road and then cool down as you got higher. I've never done that Spring Canyon climb so no idea how slow that it.

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