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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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Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - White Miles: 21.00Pool Laps Miles: 100.00Hoka Bondi B - New Miles: 22.00
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Swam a 5K in the pool as the storm blew in.  Long and boring, but got it done.  Not bad for only my third day swimming. Video fun at: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151157493955694

Afterwards, did 100 situps and tried two miles on the treadmill.   Leg only felt slightly better.  Oh well.

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Slept in.  The pool is taking its toll on my skin, despite skin protection products.  So gave it a rest this morning.   I think the leg is improving.  It is time to start using it more.   When I do hard heel strikes, I can still feel the pain, but I think there is improvement.   By the end of the week if there isn't much more, I'll probably at least go in for an x-ray to check for a stress fracture.   I think one problem I have is a chronic shin split, an issoated area of tenderness on the bone (not in the muscle)....but it could have developed into a stress fracture.

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Progress.  Careful and slow treadmill, working up to 10:00 pace near the end.  At times I wasn't even thinking about the pain.  That is progress.  I think the leg is on the mend.  The pains would shift from one place to another, some feeling like taper pains.   At this point it feels like getting back into it will help recover faster.  It is pretty obvious the leg got hammered pretty bad those last 30 miles of ATY.  (I could hardly walk at all for two days).  18 days have passed since doing that damage.  Now some atrophy has set in, the knee, upper calf, and lower hamstring feel a little weak, and pains appear as they are used but seems like it fades.  Also there is brusing in the joint, but that seems to be getting batter. I'll keep doing careful walks and runs for awhile.

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Treadmill. A little rough today, but I can expect ups and downs.  I'm still hoping for that day that once I warm up for a few miles, the pain disappears.   I was able to test things out for a little while at 8:00 pace.  After holding it there for awhile the pain does go down.   It isn't terrible, just always there.  Similar pain points felt in the last 10 miles of ATY.

I looked back in my blog and see that the last time I hammered my knee pretty bad was Thanksgiving weekend 2009 from a long Grand Canyon run.   I see that it took seven weeks for the knee to calm down and the pain to go away.  A couple weeks later I did run my best Rocky Raccoon.  The rest probably helped.    The first five weeks I only ran 125 miles.  In the 7th week I was able to do 20-mile runs.

Well, the difference now is that I only have a total of five weeks to recover, just 16 more days.  I'm still hoping I will.  Last time the pain was centralized in the joint area that is low in cartilege.  This time the pain is more diverse, going down the Tibia bone.  Can't figure it out.  The knee cap is also a little loose, so it doesn't track exactly right, causing other pains.  I know those won't last once the knee tightens up more.

Unless there is a setback, I still plan to run Rocky.  Sometimes with this crazy knee after running 10-15 miles, everything calms down, perhaps due to a little swelling protection.  So, I can always hope for that.

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Not good.  Tired of thinking and writing about it.  Don't need pity.  Tomorrow is another day.

Well, I learned a little to late.  I took a close look at the shoes I used for the last 24 miles of ATY.  My old Hoka Mafates with 700+ miles.   The right shoe was badly collapsed in because I have over-pronate problems with that foot.  So, for those 24 miles I had no support and was probably over-pronating like crazy on the leg, putting pressure on the inside of my knee.  The inside is what was operated on 2003, close to bone-on-bone.  It probalby also put pressure on the tibia wrong.  I broke one of my rules about running in worn our shoes.  Live and learn, a little too late.  I inspected my current shoes and they are fine.  My Stinson Hokas with 600+ are also shot the same way, but I noticed that and didn't bring them.  I haven't run in them since September.  My La Sportivas would break down like that in only 250 miles.  At least Hokas last for 500+.

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Treadmill. Much better.  Early slow miles were rough.  Finally decided to just go for it, 8:30-7:30 pace. Even did some at 6:00 pace. Discovered that the pain went way down because I pronate better at that speed and do more mid-foot stricking, less pressure on the inside of the leg.  I also built up under the insole a little more to force the foot to tilt a little more to the outside.  All helped.  I also ran with Hokas this morning.   The pain was always there, but at times at 7:30 pace there was very little.  After 10 miles I was finally warmed up and even started to enjoy it a little.  I have a very high pain threshold, so I don't really know how painful it really is.  Maybe others would go grab some crutches, I don't know.   But it seems like the pain level is similar to typical pain during a 100 starting about mile 30.   I can deal with it, but it doesn't make training very enjoyable.

So, the strategy is simple.  I just need to run RR100 at 7:30 pace the entire time.  No problem.

After the run I was fine.  No swelling, not much pain.  I can just tell the various leg muscles have been hammered from ATY and the layoff.   They need work.  Funny how the left leg is just fine, wanting to run fast and long.

p.m. two more, too painful.  Went and swam 1/2 mile in the pool and did kicks.

Hoka Bondi B - New Miles: 22.00
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