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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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Finally got home after driving 3,150 miles to and from Houston for my daughter's reception.  It was nice to spend a week traveling alone with my wife.  First time in 28 years without kids around.   I had planned to do some running, but only did a treadmill run in a hotel.  The weather was pretty cold each morning I wanted to go out, near zero. 

Once home, the weather was so nice that I went out running with the dog in the snow.  That dog sure loves snow.  Ran up into the foothills.  Gee, that was my first time on the trails since my 83 miles in the Grand Canyon.   I enjoyed it.  It is time to get back in shape and lose this holiday weight.

Driving by Huntsville State Park, north of Houston, really got me itching to run Rocky Raccoon 100 next month.  We'll see.

La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow Miles: 5.00
Comments
From Maurine/Miles on Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 20:10:25 from 97.117.66.225

Welcome back! Hope 2010 is a great year for you.

From flatlander on Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 22:51:00 from 76.31.26.153

Davy, hope you had a good time down here in H-town. That's a long drive, I've done it many times. If you decide to run Rocky Raccoon, let me know if you would like a place to stay.

From jun on Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:25:49 from 66.239.250.209

Have you not signed up for Rocky Raccoon yet? It would be a cool way to start the new year off, that's for sure.

From Smooth on Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:37:44 from 174.23.217.47

WELCOME HOME! That was a L-O-N-G drive! I was in Kingwood, (north of Houston) for 10 days after Thanksgiving! It snowed there on Dec 4. Ran on the Greenbelt trail which was mostly concrete. One of these days I'm gonna run the Texas Marathon on New Years morning, a 4 loop course on the Greenbelt.

Hope you have a GREAT year of running adventures!

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