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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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Feel totally recovered.  No longer the 9-hour sleep nights with vivid dreams or waking up with crazy pains.   I would like to get back running but the leg is in about the same state it was before ATY so I don't think I did any new damage.  But still mild pain.  It does seem to be improved because most of the time walking I'm pain free.  I may head in to my leg doctor to see what he things.  A funny large calcius bump seems to be the main source of pain now.  I've had it for years and asked about it but told not to worry about it but I seem to remember the doctor saying that they can at times cause problems.   During ATY it swelled up some and seemed to pull at the layer on the bone causing good pain.

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It was time to test things out on the treadmill.   Not good.  Pain now goes to limping pain.  We're heading in the wrong direction. Everything else is just fine, recovered from ATY. So, Doctor appointment is set for the 23rd with my ortho doctor.   If there is a stress fracture it should show up on on an x-ray by then.   Rocky Raccoon is now very unlikely.  Looks like I probably ran 163 miles at ATY on a fracture explaning why I had so many issues.  Its nice to have high pain tolererance but it tends to get me into trouble.I'm still not ruling out a crazy shin splint since the shin muscle is visibly pronounced (but not sore).  But learning from 2012, once you have a fracture it causes lots of things to swell up, up and down the leg.

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