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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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Mon, Jul 04, 2011
Race: Freedom Run 5K (3.1 Miles) 00:20:47, Place overall: 45, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
5.00

Ran the Freedom Run again this year in Provo.  Chose the 5K this year because it was hot.  Three sons and my son-in-law also ran, so it was fun to have the guys there.  I hoped to get an age group place but knew 1st place would be tough because Gene Morehead was running.  I've never beat Gene, who runs tris and trains for these shorter distances.  But every race I'm getting closer and closer to him.

I warmed up by running a couple miles on the BYU campus bringing back lots of memories.  At the start, I spotted Gene.   He hit the chip timer ahead of me.   I passed him during the first quarter mile, knowing that he would later pass me.  If I could tuck in behind him to the finish that would beat his time.

It was hot!  About 80 degrees.  My first mile was about 6:00 but I slowed from there.  Gene passed me at mile 2 and I just couldn't keep stride, my breathing was just too hard.  So I cruised it in, about 30 seconds behind Gene to grab second place.

I guess the top 20 runners or so missed the final turn and ran an extra mile.  Can't see how that could have happened.  Some volunteers must have really messed up.  The cones looked  very obvious when I arrived.  So it took forever for them to get the results sorted out.

The boys finished about 5-6 minutes later.  They did great.

I got a nice crystal cube trophy, my third one from this event.  They look pretty cool.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 5.00
Comments
From Kelli on Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 00:48:16 from 71.219.92.225

TROPHIES! Yeah. Nice job on the race, it was unbelievably hot this morning (but it cooled down as the day progressed!)

From JulieC on Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 23:59:47 from 67.41.188.48

way to go davy in the heat!!! Melanie's car said it was 72 degrees. I seriously thought it was at least 80 with the humidity. HOLY SMOKES that takes your breath (and speed) away!!! I cannot see how 5 kers could ADD on. But I can see how 10 kers might want to TAKE off mileage and "inadvertently" turn left with the 5 kers onto 9 th east. I was slightly tempted but then THOSE DARN SIGNS WERE SO OBVIOUS. I guess they were just running SO FAST they couldn't read them :D.

From crockett on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:52:32 from 216.49.181.254

I guess what happened is their police escort kept going straight and they all followed. Shoot, when I turned on 9th East I looked up to the light I knew we turned at and just hoped I wouldn't die before I arrived. There is no way I would have kept going straight.

From JulieC on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:43:15 from 70.56.108.94

so....this felt worse than a hundred miler? JK : D Seriously give me some perspective here....just maybe I can run one some day!! I just can't imagine NOT being able to go straight, with all that EXTRA mileage ; D

From crockett on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:50:06 from 216.49.181.254

Yes, I hate 5 and 10ks. Too fast and painful. 100-milers you keep you heart rate down and just enjoy running.

From JulieC on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:58:58 from 70.56.108.94

so I won't feel like I am having a heart attack in a 100 miler? I felt that way on Monday in that heat.

From crockett on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:08:47 from 216.49.181.254

Heat kills me too. I try to avoid 100-milers that are in the heat. It is just a battle to not go into dehydration. Once I get dehydrated bad, heart rate and respiration do go up, I slow down and it takes a couple hours to really recover. Then after a hot race for a few days afterwards, I can feel the after-effects. So I would much rather do cool/cold 100s. Next Saturday I run Tahoe Rim 100. It will have an afternoon stretch that gets hot, so to prepare I'll start running in the afternoons for the next week and drive to the race without air conditioning.

From Kelli on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 14:18:05 from 71.219.69.64

I just read (in 2 different places) that if you eat popsicles or some other frozen thing (like a slurpee) it will help bring your body temperature down during long. hot running. Just a thought....

From JulieC on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 16:12:47 from 70.56.108.94

kelli, just read a great article in Runner's World on Heat running and that's what the guy did, he drank a slurpee. I don't think all that SUGAR is good however because that would spike your heartrate too early. Or at least mine. I was apparently DEHYDRATED for that race. My heartrate was too high in the first mile and I guess the article says NOT to run a warm up but rather walk in the shade before a race in the heat/humidity. I think it is more that WE haven't been exposed much this season to heat running and this was the first HEAT run a lot of us have done. It took us all by surprise. Some were able to handle it better than others. I had an incling to take a COLD shower before the race but instead took a shower the night before. The cold shower would have lowered my core temp just enough to not "panic" my body at the start. ICE water instead of cool water at the aide stations would have been SOOOOO helpful as well. But hey, the volunteers were nice even to be there. They were great!!

From crockett on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 16:19:40 from 216.49.181.254

Yep, being exposed to the heat a week or two before a hot race can make a huge difference to me during the race. I'll even go exercise in our rec center hot tub. It seems to only take a week to see results. It start feeling much easier to run in the heat.

Those that do that crazy Bad Water race in Death Valley take heat training to crazy extremes. A race I will never do but I have plenty of friends who do it.

From crockett on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 16:23:56 from 216.49.181.254

Some ultras will have otter pops at aid stations. They are great. Dipping my hat into streams frequently helps. Some people even dip their whole body in. Doesn't work for me because chafing starts to be a problem.

From Kelli on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 22:28:37 from 71.219.69.64

I read that article this morning (but I liked the other one better!)

I watched Running on the Sun. WOW, never ever ever. That is crazy. I just can not tolerate heat even if I am just sitting in it!

Davy, just crank up the heater in your car while you drive, run in one of those metal looking suits, drag a tire behind you while you run....

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