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Pigtails Challenge 150

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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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Fri, May 23, 2014

Race: Pigtails Challenge 150 (150 Miles) 39:48:00, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

151.00

Went to Washington to run Pigtails Challenge. This is a 9.4 mile loop course. There are also 100 and 200-mile distances. The 200-milers started the day before, the 100-milers the day after. I'll write a blog post. The course rolls, so there are short climbs along the way but the surface is fast, not technical. Sea Level altitude was amazing. It rained for about 5 hours or so during the day but no big deal, nice and cool. I wanted to push the pace for the first 100 to see what I could do and I was very surprised, heading for sub-20. In fact I ran 82 miles during the day. I did need to put on the brakes after mile 95 for a long stop of feet-fixing, just could delay it anymore and continue past 100. So I didn't make the sub-20, but still did a 20:34 which would have been good for 3rd place the next day in the 100. The last 50 was rough. I took very long breaks, ready to quit, but after the breaks felt better and continued. At about mile 135, I was pushing a longer uphill section hard, passing lots of 100-runners but bad pain hit my right knee. I basically walked the rest of the way slowly, being very careful. Up until that time I had been battling for 1st place with a younger guy for more than 100 miles. But I had lost motivation and didn't care about placement. We were more than 20 miles ahead of everyone else so I knew they wouldn't catch me. My last 50 miles took me 19 hours, so 39:48. I was pleased. I finished in time to avoid a second night running and instead went to a motel. The leg pain kept me up most of the night. But a day later, it looks like I will be fine. It was a great low-key event. I've been enjoying going to the lesser-known races.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 56.00	Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 95.00

Comments

From jtshad on Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:57:41 from 141.221.191.225

Wow...just wow!

From crockett on Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:03:37 from 216.49.181.253

Detailed race report at: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=1954

From Rob Murphy on Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:22:02 from 163.248.33.220

Nice Davy! It's so good to see you not only holding your own, but excelling.

From Jon on Tue, May 27, 2014 at 18:49:50 from 107.203.52.135

What Shadley said- wow.

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