| 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 Favorite Blogs: |
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Afternoon run on true trails. The Olympus shoes worked great, looks like a winner. All my complaints about Hokas are gone in this shoe. I'm hopeful.
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| | Tough treadmill. Got to love watching people in the rec room. This week a new guy, the "twitter weight lifter." They guy is totally adicted. After each set for a minute or two, his hand to go in in pocket, pull out his phone and I'm sure he was checking twitter. Happened over, and over, and over again. What is with this generation! I work all day with computers, and happily don't want to be that connected so my smart phone isn't smartly used. Another group is the ADHD workout ladies. These ladies go from one thing to another and only spend a couple minutes on each machine, never getting their heart rate up. The weight lifting is with such low weights it hardly does anything I'm sure. But it is just funny to watch them circle the room doing things and chatting the entire time.
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| | Ran with some Wasatch Wrangers up and over and around Lake Mountain for 50K. Great fun, nice to meet new people. It was nice to see so many people running my trails. Nicely, the leg behaved well. I think I'm ready to just ignore it and start working hard. My speed and strength today was frustrating because I'm out of shape and 12 pounds over my race weight. But I guess I should be happy. What other old, fat, out of shape can got run 32 miles with a bunch of youngsters?
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| | Spring canyon in Captital Reef NP. See blog
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| | Cathedral Valley in Capital Reef NP. See blog
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| | 33 Treadmill in two sessions. Finally after four months I'm again training with confidence, not worrying about the leg. That was a long recovery. Next Thursday, Pickled Feet 48-hour in Idaho. I'm not in race shape, but we'll see what I can don.
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Pickled Feet 48-hour (161.14 Miles) 48:00:00, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1 | | I traveled to Idaho to run a newer race, Pickled Feet. It is a fixed-time race but they also have a 100-mile division. The fixed time divisions are 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, and 48 hours. I ran the 48 hours. My goal was to reach 150 miles. I knew that would be tough because I really haven't trained very hard for the past three months due to the stress facture. I'm also 10 pounds over my race weight. But I gave it a good try. There were only 15 starters in the 48 hour but there was good competition. I hoped for a podium finish.
Things went well. The course was a 2.5 mostly dirt road smooth surface, pretty flat. Not as fast as Across the Years, much slower because of the surface and small hills, but it still was pretty fast. The weather was cool with some rain, at times pouring. Things got muddy for a couple of the hours.
I settled into 2nd place right from mile 2 and never retook 1st place. Jayk Reynolds was solid and held on to it. He was always worried about me and kept checking the standings, but I knew I couldn't catch him if he didn't crash. I just wasn't in good enough condition to put up huge miles.
But I did compete very well with two other runners, David and Sam. I reached 50 miles in 10:31, so that was pretty slow, but I was steady. Jayk reached that point in 9:15 which is closer to what I should have done. I reached 100 miles in 24:37, not fast, but not bad. At mile 105 I was so thrashed and in pain that I had to stop and rest in my car. I had it all set up for sleep and it was nice an comfy. But sleep never came. As I interacted with Facebook friends, I learned that while resting I lost my 2nd place lead and would soon be in 4th place, so I pushed myself back out after about 1:45 rest.
I eventually regained 2nd place and with nine hours to go had a 10-15 mile lead over David and Sam. But David had the ability to kick it into marathon speed and he did. I had 15 miles on him at the 150 mile mark but my bad leg was in pain and I was limping slowly along. I did the math and realized he would catch me. So, I groaned and also kicked it in gear and started to fly. For ten miles, I ran just as fast as I did near the beginning of the race. But at mile 160, I noticed my leg swelling, and I knew I had to quit with two hours to go. I told David that I was stopping at 160 and knew he would catch me and he eventually did. I did beat Sam by 10 miles so I got my podium finish. I was pleased but it still eats me that David beat me by 2 miles. If I would have kept racing, we both would have ended up near 170 miles and I would have held him off. But I was really beat up and stopping was good. For the last hour, they open up a tiny loop for you instead of the long 2.5 mile loop. I walked another mile to finish with 161.14.
During the race I spent a total of about 4 hours resting in my car, but I never did fall asleep. The rest did work great because after each rest, I could again run pretty fast. I went a total of 62 hours without any sleep. Ouch!
It was a great event. I'll be back.
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