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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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7.00

Decided to benchmark my fitness by timing a tough hill climb route I've done many times.   My previous best in 2007 was 1:08:17.  The route starts right behind my house, across Redwood Road.  It is a seven-mile out and back that climbs a total of 1500 feet.  The last half mile up is very rugged and steep, so it is a tough seven miles.  It first goes up almost a mile of pavement, up Grandview Blvd, goes into a gravel pit area and continues up a dirt road straight into Lott Canyon.  The road narrows and winds up the canyon until it finally arrives at the top of a ridge where you can look over to top to Eagle Mountain.

I pushed it pretty hard, at race speed, but didn't red-line.  To my surprise, I crushed my previous PR by nearly five minutes.  1:03:30.  I made it to the top in 39:26, and 24:04 down, for a 6:52 pace average coming down (had a terrible headwind slowing me in stretches).

I'm starting to think despite my advancing age, that I better set my sights a little higher this year, that I can do better than I think.  In each race that I have really pushed since Feb, I've either set a course PR or a distance PR.  So, something is working this year.

Splits: 1st Gate: 8:21, 2nd Gate: 19:15, Top: 39:26, 2nd Gate: 49:39, 1st Gate: 57:16, Bottom: 1:03:30.

 

La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (old) Miles: 7.00
Comments
From jun on Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:57:13 from 97.126.230.46

Awesome. I know that run well. That is the canyon Scott and I went up think it was going to take us to the top. I can vouch for how tough it gets.

From Kelli on Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 22:48:11 from 71.219.93.114

A 5 minute PR??? NICE! However, I could have saved you the trip and just told you that you are getting WAY fast! Nicely done.

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