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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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I'm at the Bighorn 100, just resting until the start.  I enjoyed the pre-race dinner last night.  I ate with Beat Jegerlehner and his friends Steven Ansell and Harald Walther.  All four of us are Plain 100 finishers.  There are only a couple handful of runners who have ever finished that race, so it was unusual to have four of us in one place.  Between us we had 6 finishes in that tough race in Washington.  We had a great time talking about our crazy tales in that race.  Beat is a tough runner who finishes multiple 100s each year.  In September he is going to run a 200-mile race in Italy that has about 70,000 elevation climb.  Harald is going to run in the famed the UTMB 100 (Mont Blanc).  That race goes around Mont Blanc, Switzerland and has thousands of runners in it.

After eating with them, I ate with Matt and Ann Watts and Sue Norwood and Jim O'Neil.  Sue and Jim are stalwarts on the ultrarunning circuit.  They spend their summers going from race to race in their camper.  I first got to know Sue when I read her massive day-by-day journal of her run on the entire Appalachian Trail.  After that fun I went back to my room, rested and watch the LA-Boston game.

I had about six hours sleep last night, far more than usual before a 100, so I'm good to go.  I'l watch some of the soccer game and then go to the pre-race briefing.

Comments
From KP on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:05:05 from 65.208.22.26

Good luck!!! I can't wait to read the report.

From RAD on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:42:23 from 67.172.229.125

WOW, those are some amazing runners. I would LOVE to have sat back and listened to some of those stories!

Good luck on the race, I also can't wait to read the report. I'm sure it will be another good read!

From Aaron Kennard on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 15:48:09 from 174.51.250.151

Good luck Crockett and have fun!!

I met Matt Watts while running down Green mountain above Boulder last week and we chatted for 10 minutes or so, nice guy. He told me he was doing Bighorn. I also saw him doing the dirty thirty, my first 50K, a couple weeks ago.

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