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Gruesome Grizzly 8k

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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.or g/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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Sat, May 30, 2009

Race: Gruesome Grizzly 8k (4.85 Miles) 00:42:50, Place overall: 28, Place in age division: 2

Total Distance

11.00

This blog software is very lame. I wrote up a good race report, hit submit and it was lost. Maybe I'll write something later. It was a fun race, I ran it at a typical 50-miler pace for me to test out the injured foot/ankle. I enjoyed meeting some of the bloggers, jun, Twinkies, etc. They ran very well. I felt slow, old, fat, and out of shape. But still beat my time from last year somehow. They had non-standard age groups and I was in the 41-50 age group. How offensive. I've worked very hard to stay alive for 50 years and have earned the right to compete against the old-foggies, but here they put me in with the kids! I still finished in 2nd. They guy right ahead of me who I knew was younger, got first. Bummer. I should have reeled him in afterall.

I did have fun on the flat canal road up above the canyon. I was finding some good foot speed, reeling in Twinkies and others fast. I backed off once I saw the downhill coming, planning to blast down it like crazy, but it didn't happen. I got within about 20 yards of Twinkies, but the foot pain became more intense and Twinkies did great blasting down the hill. I maintained a good pace and eventually finished in 42:50. This year I didn't take a detour near the finish.

The foot test was a failure. By afternoon, the foot was sore and I was almost limping. This is discouraging. I'll bet it will feel fine tomorrow, but still, why can't it just heal up and go away. I'll start Squaw Peak 50 next week, but there is a 50-50 chance I won't finish. We'll see. I don't want to miss it because it is a chance to run with so many of my ultra friends. I'd rather run SP50 than Bighorn 100 which is only in three weeks.

I'm planning to stay off the foot all week and taper. My uphill speed will probably be pathetic, but if the foot cooperates, I should be able to blast down the dirt roads next week.

Mizuno Wave Elixer Miles: 11.00

Comments

From Twinkies on Sun, May 31, 2009 at 00:15:57 from 67.166.71.60

Nice race Davy. It was fun to see you at another race. Take care of that foot.

From Enoch on Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:40:12 from 76.164.28.30

Injuries are the worst. I can't imagine you not finishing though. You are a die hard.

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