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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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Update:  Some progress.  For the past two months I've had two spots on my leg that have given me the most grief.  One is in the location of the stress fracture.  The other I suspect was an inflamed bursa.   That at times was far worse than the fracture area.  That pain has been gone for about a week.  So that is progress.   The fracture area pain is going down little by little.  There is a cool bump on the bone across my leg where the layer over the bone is trying to fix things, putting down a patch.  It is noticable when you look at it.  If I press on it, there is very little pain.

But there is other stuff, pain behind the knee, pain down into the calf.  Stuff that might just be some swelling, nerve problems, or mucles and tendons complaining from recovery or not being used.  I think once the bone heals, that stuff will be gone.

I'm feeling fat, so as soon as they get our community pool filled again (maintenance), I'll get into a workout routine.   Saturday I tried a little bike and eliptical, but if still felt like it is too much.  Any pain in the facture area is probably too much.

Comments
From Dan Varga on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 15:32:20 from 65.44.116.4

Any progress is good progress. Hope the recovery continues to improve.

From jtshad on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 15:32:47 from 204.134.132.225

Hope you can get fully recovered soon, you really push yourself in you races.

Get well.

From Jon on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 20:50:01 from 74.177.96.130

Dude, 8 more weeks. 8 more weeks of rest will allow you many more years of running. Rest, Davy. Don't blow it by coming back too fast.

From crockett on Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:41:29 from 216.49.181.254

Yep, I'll be very careful. I'm really familiar now what bone pain feels like. I still feel it with any walking. That has to totally go away before I even think about running.

From Scott Wesemann on Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:44:09 from 75.162.79.138

At least there is a light at the end of the tunnel now. Once that fracture heals you will be on your way back. Good to see some progress.

From Smooth on Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 12:15:39 from 174.27.212.157

Happy to hear things are progressing! :)

Drink skim milk, eat chocolate flavored calcium chews! Swim, water aerobics, aqua jog! The bump over the fracture site is good calous, it will become super strong bone! Speedy healing to you!

From flatlander on Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:52:17 from 76.31.26.153

Hope this week meant continued progress for your legs. You are a smart runner, it was interesting to follow your sleuthing, especially when you finally nailed the source of the pain.

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