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December 22, 2024

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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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OK, here the deal.  R2R2R left me with very sore muscles but no shin pain anymore.  But once all the muscle pain calmed down the shin pain returned.  It has me spooked.  It is minor, but is similar to pain I felt in 2012 before my stress fracture went wild. A couple weeks ago I would only feel the pain after running, but now I feel it during running (at least for the first several miles).  These symtoms are consistent with pre-stress fractures.  I'm paranoid that this tibia bone can easily break.   The pain is really minor, nothing like the pain felt in 2012 and could just be pain left over from all the healing and surface tention.  But to be safe, I'm going to shut down running for a couple weeks and use the dreaded eliptical for my miles.   I experience no pain doing that which again makes me think the running motion is putting stress on a sensative area about four inches below the break in 2012.  This could be just a minor shin splint but I doubt it because the pain is weight-bearing.  Not yet the bone pain I'm now familiar with, it is pain in the soft layer that surrounds the bone.  So, I'll give that a try.  I need to rest a foot anyway.  The R2R2R left a painful spot on the forefoot that is slow healing.  All this is alway on the right leg, even the same leg with the torn meniscus in 2003. The cause of all these problems?  Over pronation in my right foot.  All my siblings have the same problem and a couple kids too...just the right foot.   And I think the real cause is a hip defect that swings the leg a little off.

Altra Torin Miles: 13.00
Comments
From flatlander on Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:59:56 from 76.31.9.237

After about 20,000 miles you get really smart about injuries -- good call on shutting it down, and condolences for the elliptical.

From Jon on Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 20:25:54 from 107.203.52.135

Rest = wisdom.

From crockett on Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 15:10:24 from 65.122.15.184

flatlander, I should know in a couple days if I injured the leg too much to do Rocky. I think it will be fine...nothing like the pain coming back from ATY a couple years ago. I still believe it is a shin splint which I was able to run through. But it did make me hold back.

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