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January 2017

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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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Miles for the week, mostly treadmill.  Crappy weather.

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It has been many years since I've been on this blog.  I might try it again to record daily training. In 2016 I ran 4,742 miles, most ever for me in a calendar year.  I also finished 12 100-miler, also most in a year. 

50K at the Olympic Oval in 4:47.  Training for Rocky Racoon 100 in two weeks.  Feel ready.  It has been five years since I ran there.  In 2012, I ran it but finished with a massive stress fracture in my tibia and couldn't run for six months.  In 2013, I tried to return, but the leg started bothering me and I decided to not run, good decision.  But since that race in 2012, I've finished 36 more 100-milers and despite my advance age of 58, I'm good to go and still pretty fast.  I hope for my 87th career 100-mile finish, and my 6th at Rocky.

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Since I left the blog in 2013, I've concentrated on doing a weekly very long run.  For me, it allows me to run more 100-milers, I recover much faster, and stay injury-free as I am very careful about my pace.  Each Saturday I hope to do a 50K run if possible if I find some place interesting to run. In 2016, I did 45 runs of at least the marathon distance or more and the average distance of those runs including the races was 59 miles.  So far, for 2017 I've run four runs of at least 50K or more, so a good start.  I've now run 315 runs lifetime of 50K distance or more.  Here are some of my detailed thoughts of the frequent long run.

 

 

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Miles for the week, 84, mostly treadmill.  Weather sure has been crappy and I hate to go out and run when it is so cold.  Look forward to Texas next weekend running Rocky Raccoon 100 for the 6th time.  Should be warm and some rain.

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