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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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14.00

A repeat of the same run I did on Tuesday, up to Butterfield Peak.   On the trail at about 4:15 a.m..   I kept some split times to push me in the future.  Last picnic area: 24:07, ridge road: 1:02, sign frame: 1:27, summit: 2:02:53, sign frame; 2:22, ridge road: 2:37, end of yellow fork: 2:49, finish: 3:14:25.  Plenty of room to improve.  I did it 20 minutes faster than Tuesday, most of that time improvement on the climb.   This is one very challenging section, steep rough single trace only used by horses that feels like the Windy Pass climb at Squaw Peak.  It is great.  It climbs 1,000 feet in about a mile and then connects to a dirt road that takes you to the top.

Dawn arrived while I was high on the ridges, a spectacular site with the orange glow and the city lights.   I saw plenty of deer and a few cows high up on the mountain.

I've climbed 9,000 feet so far this week.  Not bad.

La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (old) Miles: 14.00
Comments
From jun on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 13:20:33 from 66.239.250.209

Man, that just sounds really cool. Your comment about all of the climbing this week has me thinking about goals for next year. While I have focused on longer runs each month this year, I'm considering doing an elevation goal for next year. i.e. 25,000 of climbing each month or something like that. Thoughts?

From crockett on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 13:59:01 from 216.49.181.254

In 2007 and 2008 I tracked approximate elevation climb in my log. For those years I averaged per month, 33,000 and 36,000.

From jun on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 14:04:39 from 66.239.250.209

See, that is super cool. I think I'm totally going to do that.

From Scott Wesemann on Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 00:16:49 from 75.162.67.136

That is sick guys, but pretty dang cool.

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