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October 2013

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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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Recovery has been rough.  What is amazing is that I really don't have sore muscles.  I think my endocrine system just go hammered bad.  Still feel sick, haven't bounced back yet.  Low energy, still need lots of sleep. But besides that, everything in working order.  Massive deep forefoot blister which will take a week.  I'm looking forward to resting.  I have no races scheduled until Across the Years around New Years.  So I think I'll just have continued fun with adventure runs.

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Finally came back to life today.  With my resistance low, I caught a bad cold Tuesday night, the first cold I have had in probably three years.  This afternoon, I finally feel much better and starting to think of running again.  That turned out to be one of my roughest 100-mile recoveries in several years, probably because of being out there for 35+ hours and in the heat for the second day.  Truly, 100-milers are far, far tougher for the back of the pack.  Give me a sub-24 any day, and I'll recover in a day or two.

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Winter training has official begun.   It is time to get back to mid-week training and higher miles each week.  Less hills, more flats to get ready for Across the Years and Rocky Raccoon 100.   Hit the treadmill at our home owners rec center.  First time in months.  Same cast of characters, with a couple new people this morning.   I thought the treadmill would be hard but wasn't that bad making my legs go faster.  I am being careful about my chronic hamstring issue from injury in January.  It behaved well and let me spend some time running at 7:00 pace.

I think I have a cracked rib.  It happened three weeks ago when coming down from AF West Twin.  On one of my many falls, my elbow jammed hard into my ribs.  I've had cracked/bruised ribs before and this isn't as bad as those times.  Running Mogollon Monster 100, it hurt pretty bad the first 30 miles then must have swelled and wasn't a problem.  But it is healing pretty slow.

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Funny how I run the toughest 100-miler of my life and come away without sore legs, but then yesterday I run seven miles of tempo run on a treadmill and come away with a sore quad.  I ran through it, doing more treadmill this morning.  Trying to change my sleep pattern to get up in the early morning before work and go to bed earlier.  I'll start hitting the outdoors too.

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Quad sore.  Skipped today.

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Ran all the way around Mount Nebo.  47 miles.  I put a video about it on my facebook page.  It was quite the adventure.  Fun running in new places.

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Sick, minimal miles over the last two weeks.

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Ran around Lake Mountain.  It was rough, but I got it done.  All my chronic injury problems surfaced (sore knee, sore leg, hamstring, etc).  Probably because I've been down for so long and haven't run.  Discouraged, feeling old and slow.  Worried about getting ready for Across the years.

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It is time to start daily training again.  I took several days off to let the hamstring settle down. Treadmill.   It was rough, but OK
 

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 10.00
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Treadmill again.  Much better.   I'll try to work up to increased miles.  Just paranoid about muscle pulls.   I registered for Across the Years 72 hour race.   I'll give three days a try.  I think I can compete for the win if I can get back into race shape without injury.  I need to lose about 7 pounds too.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 8.00
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Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 35.00New Balance Leadville Miles: 80.00
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