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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.or g/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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Sat, May 02, 2009

Total Distance

1.00

I did a tough workout this morning. I swam 2 miles in the pool. The first mile was 44 minutes and during the second mile I stopped at each quarter mile to do vigorous deep kicking. I'm rather amazed that I'm already up to 2 miles in just my first five days of swimming in over a year. That is encouraging. That makes 5.5 miles in the pool this week. Also, I've lost four pounds this week. I had forgotten how easy it is to lose weight swimming as compared to running.

A couple friends came to the pool during my second mile. One of them will run in the Sapper Joe 30K. After all that time in the pool, I went to the rec room and did a little eliptical. I felt no foot pain, so that is great. However, I hate elipticals. The motion just is too far away from the running motion and those machines affect my knees poorly. They put too much pressure on my knee caps in the wrong way if I do long workouts on them. I shifted over to the stationary recombent bike and did a tough hard ride that got the quads burning. Then I did toe lifts to get the calfs burning. The foot didn't hurt during them. In the pool my vigorous kicking on my back got the hamstrings burning. So overall, I think that workout was great.

I'm very encouraged about the foot this morning. I now feel very little pain while walking. I think running 10 miles of the BSTM last Saturday set my recovery back 8 days. I've almost made that up and I will be careful this time during the second week of recovery.

So things are looking up. I'm trying to keep a postitive attitude and just think of this as a nice long taper. With all the miles I've run the past two years I deserve a little break.

Comments

From jun on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 16:05:19 from 71.213.11.7

Sounds like you are really staying on top of things. I won't lie, I was kind of hoping that I was the only person running the 30k at Sapper Joe. Was hoping everyone else was running the 50k. Just trying to reduce my embarrassment. Ha.

From crockett on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 17:39:58 from 71.36.86.97

My friend running the 30K is a fast marathoner. I'm not sure how much hill training he has done. I noticed his treadmill run after the swim was on the flats.

From frank Bott on Sun, May 03, 2009 at 18:05:12 from 70.144.88.243

lost some weight swimming; that is good news. i really think that is a big factor for me and my feet. The less weight they have to carry around the better they seem to perform over long runs.. Keep up the work.. I found the leg press, used correctly and in correctly have really helped my bones become stronger in my legs..

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