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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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Ten fairly easy treadmill miles.  10x8:00x6%

Watched a guy who came in to lift weights.  I have a hard time understanding those guys.  He does some simple reps, and then walks around slowly for five minutes, takes a drink, looks at himself in the mirror, watches TV, looks at the weights and slowly sets up the next easy exercise.   He was there for 40 minutes and I think was actually working about 5-7 of those minutes.  To me that is a waste of good time. No sweat on his shirt when he left.  

Another guy who is trying to lose weight is similar.  He actually stands and stares at the weights and machines for long minutes.  I think he thinks he is doing good by just being there and looking at the weights.  Oh well at least they are doing something. 

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Comments
From jun on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:29:30 from 66.239.250.209

That's always the fallback line, "at least they are doing something". What you really want to say to them is, "you really aren't doing anything".

I watched two girls hop on the treadmill the other day and proceed to walk for 15 minutes at the absolutely slowest speed possible. They then walked around the weights and did one set on each machine with almost no weight on it. It just makes me laugh.

From crockett on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:39:13 from 216.49.181.254

Yep, I do really want to scream at them and tell them to get working. Funny thing is, that I did notice that one guy a couple days ago, really started to work harder once he saw me really pouring it on, steep incline, 7:30 pace, breathing hard, grunting and groaning.

From jun on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:40:45 from 66.239.250.209

That's relative really, I've heard you grunt and groan getting out of a chair. Ha.

From crockett on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:44:53 from 216.49.181.254

Its fun to be a critic. Other times, I see runners running down the road by my house, running with terrible running form, swinging their bodies all over the place. No way can they keep that up for more than a mile or two. I'm so tempted to pull over and try to explain what they are doing wrong, but I just drive on.

From crockett on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:47:03 from 216.49.181.254

My best moaning and growning in late in a 100-miler when my stomach is in bad shape. I make more noise sometimes that one of those obnoxious tennis players.

From Scott Wesemann on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:51:29 from 66.239.250.209

There is a lady that goes to my gym that will sit on the bike pedaling as slow as possible, all the while guzzling the biggest Gatorade they sell.

And a guy that I see 'lifting' that spends at least 70% of his time texting on his phone. What in the?? I don't even look at my phone at the gym.

From crockett on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:55:20 from 216.49.181.254

Scott, that is funny. So she's taking in more calories than burning. We have one of the texter weight lifters over here too, in the afternoons. Sets his phone on the window sill right in front of my machine and comes and checks it every five minutes. Drives me nuts, so I don't like to go there in the afternoons. Than the funniest thing is over at the Lehi Legacy indoor track. Sometimes I see walkers (walking slowly) texting the entire time.

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