| 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 Favorite Blogs: |
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| | First Dam 10K 44:29, 25th out of 136 starters. First in age group. | | Add Comment |
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Spiderman 5K 21:04, 8th overall out of about 300. 1st age group.
Also ran 15 in Eagle Mountain. | | Add Comment |
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Eagle Mountain | | Add Comment |
| | Ultimate XC Moab 50K - very tough 7:44, 38th place, 110 starters | | Add Comment |
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| | Ran all the way around Lake Mountain (mountain west of Utah Lake). Did it in 6:45. | | Add Comment |
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Earn your Turkey 4-mile (4 Miles) 00:25:48, Place overall: 46, Place in age division: 2 | |
The weather is getting cold and wet, chasing me out of the hills and off the trails. I decided to take a crack at another road race and went over to Orem to run in this traditional Thanksgiving 4-mile race.
I'm currently training for Across The Years 24-hour race in Arizona on Dec 30. I hope to cover 110 miles in the 24-hours. If successful, it would be my 8th 100-mile finish for the calendar year, capping off a satifying ultramaraton race year.
To train for this next race, I'm backing off the extreme elevation training. I've climbed 421,000 feet this year. What I need to do now is increase my foot speed on the flats. Thus, I'm doing more training on flatter dirt roads for the next few weeks.
Running in the Earn your Turkey 4-miler would be a nice test of my foot speed. I rarely run on roads, but looking at the past year's times, I thought I could be competitive in my old-fart 50-54 age-group.
As the race started, plenty of youngsters went off sprinting like crazy. I decided to be careful for the first mile and not burn out my lungs. I'm just not used to cranking at such speeds. I quickly noticed a tall strong 50ish runner in front of me, Bill Bedford, of Oregon. I realized that he would be my competition. I couldn't see any other gray-hairs ahead of us. I decided to carefully hang behind Bill and hope that I could pass him later in the race.
My first mile was a little slow, 6:22, but I sped up a little and cranked out a 6:15 second mile. The lungs were working hard and I watched Bill pull ahead, fearing that he had dropped me. I struggled on mile 3, still not warmed up, but had a 6:59 split, still under seven minutes. I did notice at the 5K mark that I was faster than my 5K PR. Very nice.
Finally I started to feel warmed up and pushed the last mile much harder, passing a few runners ahead. Bill was in view, but I realized I wouldn't catch him. I finished mile 4 in 6:11 for a strong finish, about 30 seconds behind Bill My finish time was 25:48, 46th place overall, and 2nd to Bill in the 50-54 age group. I was pleased to see that no other old runners beat us, in fact the oldest runner to beat us was 44. If I was a year younger, I would have won the 45-49 age group. My pace was under 6:30 miles. Nice for an old slow guy.
Well, it was a fun morning. I took home a turkey and a coupon for a pie. | | Comments(2) |
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Turkey Trot 5K (Provo) (3.1 Miles) 00:20:05, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1 | |
After 15 boring treadmill miles in the morning, (I can't believe I'm wimping out on a treadmill!). I decided to finish the week off with a 5K tempo run. I went to Provo and ran in the new little 5K that runs through some neighborhoods in the northwest end of Provo near the Provo River.
The race was somewhat challenging because it had so many turns and ran on varied surfaces, grass, pavement and sidewalks. There was one challenging hill and lots of turns. My first mile including the hill came in at 6:44. My legs felt a little heavy from the 15 miles in the morning. My second mile was the best when I was able to kick it into gear and pass three young runners. I clocked a 6:05. Mile 3 was a grind toward the finish, 6:35. But I have to be pleased because I ran a PR with a 20:05 finish. Oh, so close to breaking 20 minutes. I know I can do that now, on a nice flat course. There were only 17 runners in the race, but I came in 5th place. The four runners who beat me were all more than half my age, a bunch of fast kids.
Looks like I'm on target to finish off the year with 3,000 miles. I just need 250 more miles to reach that -- my highest milage year ever. | | Comments(1) |
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