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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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Race: Rex Lee 10K (6.21 Miles) 00:42:24, Place overall: 26, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
16.00

This is the fifth year I've run this 10K.  I like to run it because Rex Lee's wife grew up with my mom and she's always been kind to me when I've met her.

Last year this was sadly a 9K, but they got things fixed.  This distance was good.  This is a tough course to get a PR because of the hill.  It is about 200 feet of climbing.  This year the because of the start location, the hill was moved to mile 2 instead of 1.  That made it tougher.  I like to get that hill over with on very fresh legs.

I said hi to Mary Ann Schauerhamer at the start.   She asked what my target was, and I told her 42:00.  Turns out that she took it easy and ran a steady 42-minute pace the entire way.  That threw me off at first because I was keeping up with her for the first mile with a 100-foot climb.  The split was 6:41., which was too slow.  Not a good start, lost 20 seconds.  The hill mile split was 7:33.  OK, I knew I'd really have to go negative splits now on the steady long downhill starting at the MTC.  Mary Ann was less that 100 yards ahead.

For the next couple miles, I ran almost side-by-side with the third-place woman who had talked to me at the start.  She would catch up, I would surge ahead, she would catch up, and we would do this over and over again.   Good motivation.

Mile 3 was 6:19, and Mile 4 was 6:33.  Good work.  But than she surged ahead and I just couldn't find the push to keep up anymore.  Time to hang on.  Mile 5 was 7:02, still OK, but I lost the PR bringing it in at 7:16 pace.  I just didn't have the motivation to red-line it to the finish.

I crossed the finish line in 42:24, in 26th place out of about 480 runners.  I got secon in my age group.  Senator Mike Lee announced the awards and of course joked about my name.

I missed the PR by 20 seconds, but that is OK.  It is a tough course to PR on.  However, I set a course PR by almost a minute.

Afterwards I met Keith Barton who beat me. I always compete with with him in my age group but am always just behind.  We had a nice talk.  He is going to run Squaw Peak for the first time and is planning on doing a Grand Canyon R2R2R.  Its nice that my writings are inspiring road runners to give ultras a try.

p.m. four miles with the dog, Jimmer.  I'm renaming the dog to Jimmer.  I'm sure she will like the name.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 12.00
Comments
From Smooth on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 19:25:14 from 67.2.89.126

Awesome race, Davy!!! Way to show the younguns how it's done! CONGRATZ on the AG win! Man, you are fast! And yes you are a legend and inspiration to many a runners!

I think I'll name my blue foam roller Jimmer!

From Jon on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 21:03:07 from 98.84.73.73

Nice job, Davy.

From jun on Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 22:24:39 from 97.126.226.222

Congrats. Looks like your weeks of 10k training has really paid off.

From MichelleL on Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:40:44 from 70.57.89.31

Wow, they managed a 10k this year? It is a tough course to PR good job getting that close to your PR.

From JulieC on Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 22:02:51 from 67.41.191.177

I didn't run it because of the lame 9k last year, glad they improved. Good job on the run!!!

From crockett on Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 22:08:14 from 71.36.84.40

Yep, I wasn't going to run it either until I noticed the change. My Garmin showed it was very close to correct. But this year they messed up the age group awards, didn't include those who registered on race day. So I took home a first place ribbon when I should have taken home a second place. Keith knew he beat me but was even too kind to let me know. I discovered it when they posted the results on the website.

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