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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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Went on a one mile walk with the dog this afternoon before a giant thunderstorm blew in.   The legs feel great.  Soreness as usual in the ankle, and a small knot in my right calf.  I'm amazed how little soreness I feel compared to after Ogden Marathon.  Yes I ran that race eight minutes faster, but still.  I chalk it up to better leg conditioning now that I have started to again run long distances.  That is encouraging.

I'm in a reflective mood today.  As I was walking with the dog, gazing up to the foothills of Lake Mountain (my training playground), I couldn't help reflect on the beauty of the place I live.  The contrast of the mountains in front and the deep dark storm coming in from behind was an amazing sight.  As I watched further, the fingers of rain made their way over the mountain and descended like a cloud racing down the mountain toward me.   Lightning followed with fierce wind.   I made my way back to the house just as the downpour arrived.

I've really lived in some beautiful places, each with their unique beauty.  My youth in the Pacific Northwest, very close to Puget Sound.  My young adult years in upstate New York with its beautiful green hills, in our little house on the banks of the Susquehanna River.  Then, my hardworking adult years in the beautiful Sonoran Desert in Tucson, with giant saguaro cactus out our back yard.  Now in my mid-life years in Utah with its magnificent mountains and redrock desert.   Too bad I only took up running four years ago.  I missed some great trails in those other places I have lived.   It has and continues to be a wonderful life.  My daughter will be home from her mission in two weeks.  It will be good to have all six kids around again.  And its very nice that five of them will be out of the house by fall!  Ha, ha.  Ah, the peace and quiet.   Well, enough reflecting.

Comments
From Maurine/Tarzan on Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 20:08:02 from 97.117.76.235

Dave - I think we find things to do in life at a time that we need to. Who knows - if you had started running years ago, you might not appreciate it as much now or you might have been injured.

But - I do agree that nature is the best place for reflecting.

Good luck getting ready for this Friday's race.

So - do you think I could do the Pony Express 50 and the OV 50 this fall if I don't run between them?

From jun on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:01:04 from 66.239.250.209

Thanks for the inspiration. My wife and I talked a few weeks ago about where we'd like to live if we didn't live here in Utah. Our answer? 'Nowhere'. I am so much in love with this place and its beauty and diversity. Like you, I've lived in a lot of different places, each one very special in its own right. But none of them hold my heart like where I live now. And like you, I wish I didn't start running a year ago, but 15 years ago. I can only imagine. Congrats on your daughter's soon arrival.

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