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December 22, 2024

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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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Recovery making more progress.  I'm still sleeping on the couch because after a couple hours of sleep I wake up screaming in bad pain....don't want to bother my wife all night.  But things are getting better.   I could "jog" down the stairs this morning without holding on to the railing although it hurt pretty bad.   I could also walk from my car to my work building at a good pace without much pain.   And, best of all, I have an appetite back.   So I'm close to being human again.   It is amazing how the body recovers and heals.

Comments
From Jake K on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 17:28:02 from 155.100.226.54

Well, at least you aren't sleeping on the couch b/c you're in trouble with your wife! Although your recovery updates make it sound like you got hit by an 18-wheeler and then thrown down a couple flights of stairs... I guess that is what running nearly 200 miles nonstop will do to you!

From crockett on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 17:30:11 from 216.49.181.254

Yep, it is bad enough that for right now I think I'll give up doing those 48-hour races. They make 24-hour races seem very easy.

From Smooth on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 17:32:28 from 75.162.95.99

Jake's comment just made me laugh out loud! Hahahah!!! :) :) :)

Glad you're making progress on the recovery. You're amazing!!! Eat...sleep...heal!!! :)

From crockett on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 17:40:14 from 216.49.181.254

Well, you guys would have really busted a gut laughing if you would have seen me and Kevin hobble through the Phoenix airport, father and son....looked like we both had the same genetic disability. We would go 100 yards and I would have us stop to rest for 15 minutes before going on again. Our gate was the furthest away...a cruel joke. Then on the plane I kept cooling my face with wet rags. The people sitting next to me didn't want to get close, I had some sort of bad sickness.

From crockett on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 17:42:33 from 216.49.181.254

I didn't dare explain to the people on the plane what my true sickness was. They would then think I was insane.

From Jake K on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 17:44:29 from 155.100.226.54

You should have gotten one of the guys who drives the golf carts around the airport to give you a ride! :-)

From Andrea on Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 18:02:44 from 72.37.244.100

This recovery sounds awful. I hope you are taking ice baths! At least you have 28000 calories that you get to eat!!

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