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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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Morning treadmill, 8 miles at about 7:50 pace. After work, a run on the ice. Some runners had planned to come over from Provo and I was going to meet them, but they never showed. (Turns out they were out there.  I was just a mile too far north and somehow didn't see them.  They saw me but I guess never called out.) I had a nice run and came within a couple miles of Provo.   I did come across a major fissure in the ice.  Usually when the lake freezes, one or two of these stretch across the lake.  Two ice plates come together, one side up, one down, water pushes up and pools on the downside.  Big, dangerous obstacle.  I've seen them enough that I've learned to find safe ways over, but you just can't tell how thick the ice is and they are tough to get over without getting your feet wet.   Map shows my route today and the location of the fissure.  You can see these a couple miles away because they push up some huge chunks of ice.


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Nice afternoon run out on the lake.  The ice is by far the thickest I've ever seen it with this crazy frigid inversion for so long.

 

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Tough treadmill.  Hate it, but seeing progress.   I can now hold 6:40 pace for much longer.  Averaged 7:30.   Best of all, no leg pain felt for a couple weeks now.

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Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - White Miles: 44.00
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