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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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Worked from home so I could ice the leg.

Improvements today.  To benchmark my progress, I went out for a "run".  I took my Garmin to measure my speed.   I had to keep the pain under about a "5".   My peak pace was 27:00.  The good news is that is about three times faster than yesterday afternoon.   I was able to "run" 0.2 miles in 7:45.  Good stuff!

The biggest source of pain now is in front of my knee behind the patella, I believe on the Tibia platform.  That is odd because I should have more cartilage there.   I would think that will calm down pretty fast, but I do recall pain near there before running RR100.  

As I was "running" two women came running toward me.  I could not deal with that sight.  I turned my back and headed back in. Little did they know that the old slow-moving cripple is actually the fastest long-distance runner in the city.

I put this on facebook, a Tiny Tim reference. 

Feeling like a cripple today. Someday when I'm gone, I will be sadly remembered by one lone trekking pole by the fireplace (near my belt buckles). God bless us everyone.
p.m. walk with the dog. She was pretty annoyed that I was only going 45:00 pace.  Cut it short as the shin started to complain.

Comments
From Smooth on Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 16:40:30 from 76.1.85.84

Oh Davy!!! I don't know whether to cry or laugh! It saddens me to hear this cripple talk, but the picture makes me smile! Just want you to know that I was thinking about you during my short little run on the grass and dirt this morning in Kingwood TX! My left leg and right knee are sore and nothing in pain scale compare to yours...I kept thinking how in the world Davy could push thru that much pain for 28 hours!!! You will always be known and remembered as a hero and legend in the ultra-running world.

Sending positive healing vibes your way! You will be back to your happy healthy running self soon! Hang in there!

From crockett on Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 16:48:43 from 216.49.181.254

Thanks Smooth. Is your race on Saturday? I hope we dried out the trails for you. I know that we created a bunch of new ones going around mud bogs. I'll live. Right now I'm going to go shop for a nice peg leg, just in case it doesn't heal up. I hear they make those in nice colors these days.

From Smooth on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 00:05:38 from 76.1.85.84

Yes it is this Sat. I have never run on forest trail before. It will be fun just thinking about running on trails that you've blazed a week before. :)

Peg leg is all the craze now what with all these tough mudders and dirty dashes springing up! :)

From flatlander on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 23:35:58 from 76.31.26.153

Love the nostalgic photo, glad you are moving around and in good spirits, looks like you will be fine. (I think the first Davy Crockett would have whittled his own pegleg.) Smooth, if you pick up your feet when you run (instead of shuffling like me) you will be fine, the trail is actually quite nice in most places, but just keep your eyes on the trail to avoid tripping on the roots.

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