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.
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
Slept 12 hours last night. Nice.
I should be running in a couple days. Not so last year. Stayed home from work to recover. My bad knee really ached last night, but is feeling better. The knee is what really stopped me the second night. I talked to several runners who commented on how hard the surface was. It really is hard, pounds the legs and feet.
Last evening was rough, felt pretty sick, but after 10 more hours of sleep I've bounced back enough to be at work. There is a pretty big difference in recovering from a 48-hour run vs. a 100-mile run under 30 hours. The recovery is just a bit longer and harder. Legs feel nice and I can power walk fine. The feet get painful if they get hot as the nerve endings go bonkers. The energy level is down and appetite down, generally feel like an old man. But if the pattern holds, I'll be back feeling fine by tomorrow.
Starting a new job at the Church Monday. I'll be working more at downtown Salt Lake, so maybe can join in more runs further north before or after work.
Treadmill. Pretty amazing that just six days after running that 135 miles, I feel fully recovered and can train as I did the week before the race. No ill effects felt. Pace for 8 miles averaged 7:50. Not bad.
I'm probably going to take the next couple months easy, no real races scheduled until Buffalo Run. I'm going to run the Salt Lake Winter track series to get some speed going. It has been a long time since I've been able to run with speed, time to try the 5ks and 10ks again. Once the weather gets warming I'll do some long adventure runs again. I just don't enjoy going out in the muck and frigid temperatures. It usually makes me get sick.
8 Treadmill in the morning and then ran across Utah Lake and back. Didn't take a GPS this time, just tried to do it by landmarks and concentrate on straight lines. I couldn't see the Provo shore for quite awhile but finally saw the Provo Airport tower, so just headed that direction and then turned to Utah Lake State Park. Went ashore and then headed back. Very soon, a terrible headwind hit me and continued the entire way home. It blew little snow drifts, pretty amazing. But wind chill was close to zero. I had a difficult time staying warm. As I got closer to the north end of the lake, the wind had swept off most of the snow that was there when I began, revealing the slick ice. I had to be very careful to not slip and tried to stay on remaining snow patches. My total run on the ice was about 23 miles. I arrived home pretty frozen, but warmed up fine.
Morning treadmill, 8 miles at about 7:50 pace.
After work, a run on the ice. Some runners had planned to come over from Provo and I was going to meet them, but they never showed. (Turns out they were out there. I was just a mile too far north and somehow didn't see them. They saw me but I guess never called out.) I had a nice run and came within a couple miles of Provo. I did come across a major fissure in the ice. Usually when the lake freezes, one or two of these stretch across the lake. Two ice plates come together, one side up, one down, water pushes up and pools on the downside. Big, dangerous obstacle. I've seen them enough that I've learned to find safe ways over, but you just can't tell how thick the ice is and they are tough to get over without getting your feet wet. Map shows my route today and the location of the fissure. You can see these a couple miles away because they push up some huge chunks of ice.
Tough treadmill. Hate it, but seeing progress. I can now hold 6:40 pace for much longer. Averaged 7:30. Best of all, no leg pain felt for a couple weeks now.
Treadmill in the morning. In the afternoon, up Lake Mountain, ran around the top between the towers in the warm temps, had to shed layers. Nice to get out of the frigid temps. Ran down the other side, had to break trail, but followed tons of wildlife tracks deer, wild dogs or coyotes, and possible mountain lion. It was amazing to see so many tracks. Circled around up and over Soldier Pass, out to Redwood Road, a couple miles north and then picked up by my wife. The difference in temperature was amazing.
SLTC Winter Series 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:20:45, Place overall: 38, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
12.00
Treadmill in the early morning and then went with son, Ryan and daughter Mindy and her friend up to Great Salt Lake to run the Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 5K. I've run that 5 times, a nice flat speedy 5K on the frontage road along I-80 on the shore of of the lake. Today it was totally foggy. You could only see about a tenth of mile. The parking lot at Saltair had a strange deep crust of ice on it, probably from fog off of the lake. I got the car stuck in it, but had all the kids push me out and then parked in a good place.
Warmed up a couple miles. The road we ran on was fine, clear, no ice. Very little wind. I was one of the only ones who just wore shorts and short sleeves. It was about 31 degrees, but that was a good choice.
I haven't run a 5K in almost two years. Six months ago I believed that I would never again regain speed with my busted leg. Little by little it has come back. I thought this race would be a good test.
Mile one went fine, 6:24 pace. Mile two was a struggle as my lungs were bothered by the speed and probably smog. I backed off to save the lungs. 6:57. I felt better during Mile three and could surge the speed up for some stretches. It was 6:52. I brought it in at 6:12, probably a 90% effort. Finished in 20:48. Not bad. I think my best here was a couple years ago with a 20:07. Not bad for a 54 year-old. I placed 1st in my age group.
So, I'm encouraged that speed is indeed coming back since my injury. I'll run a 10K at the same location in a couple weeks. During the winter I find that doing these short races really help my foot speed for the ultras later in the year.
Ryan and Mindy finished well. Now all of my six kids have run a 5K.
More tempo running the the treadmill. At my very advanced age, avoiding muscle strains doing this is a challenge. Right upper hamstring complaining today, had to back off.
I'm signing up for Mogollon Monster 100 in Arizona this year instead of running Bear 100. This is the second year they are holding this race, very tough.
Pain in the leg in a location a little above last year's fracture. Freaks me out. Have visions of a new crack appearing. For months I've been taking Calcium Citrate supplements every day in hopes to strengthen the bones. I chase it down with fiber supplement. Got a tooth pulled on Monday. Who needs teeth at my age. It sucks to be old.