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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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Treadmill.  Pretty amazing that just six days after running that 135 miles, I feel fully recovered and can train as I did the week before the race.  No ill effects felt.  Pace for 8 miles averaged 7:50.  Not bad.

I'm probably going to take the next couple months easy, no real races scheduled until Buffalo Run.  I'm going to run the Salt Lake Winter track series to get some speed going. It has been a long time since I've been able to run with speed, time to try the 5ks and 10ks again.  Once the weather gets warming I'll do some long adventure runs again.  I just don't enjoy going out in the muck and frigid temperatures.  It usually makes me get sick.

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Treadmill.  Congestion is a pain.

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8 Treadmill in the morning and then ran across Utah Lake and back.  Didn't take a GPS this time, just tried to do it by landmarks and concentrate on straight lines.  I couldn't see the Provo shore for quite awhile but finally saw the Provo Airport tower, so just headed that direction and then turned to Utah Lake State Park.  Went ashore and then headed back.  Very soon, a terrible headwind hit me and continued the entire way home.  It blew little snow drifts, pretty amazing.  But wind chill was close to zero.  I had a difficult time staying warm.   As I got closer to the north end of the lake, the wind had swept off most of the snow that was there when I began, revealing the slick ice.  I had to be very careful to not slip and tried to stay on remaining snow patches.   My total run on the ice was about 23 miles.   I arrived home pretty frozen, but warmed up fine.


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