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SLTC Winter Series 5K

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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: 19.00Hoka MaFate Miles: 18.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 10.00
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Treadmill in the morning.  In the afternoon, up Lake Mountain, ran around the top between the towers in the warm temps, had to shed layers.  Nice to get out of the frigid temps.  Ran down the other side, had to break trail, but followed tons of wildlife tracks deer, wild dogs or coyotes, and possible mountain lion.  It was amazing to see so many tracks.  Circled around up and over Soldier Pass, out to Redwood Road, a couple miles north and then picked up by my wife.  The difference in temperature was amazing.


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Good treadmill workout.

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Race: SLTC Winter Series 5K (3.107 Miles) 00:20:45, Place overall: 38, Place in age division: 1
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Treadmill in the early morning and then went with son, Ryan and daughter Mindy and her friend up to Great Salt Lake to run the Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 5K.  I've run that 5 times, a nice flat speedy 5K on the frontage road along I-80 on the shore of of the lake.  Today it was totally foggy.  You could only see about a tenth of mile.  The parking lot at Saltair had a strange deep crust of ice on it, probably from fog off of the lake.  I got the car stuck in it, but had all the kids push me out and then parked in a good place.

Warmed up a couple miles.  The road we ran on was fine, clear, no ice.  Very little wind.  I was one of the only ones who just wore shorts and short sleeves.  It was about 31 degrees, but that was a good choice.

I haven't run a 5K in almost two years.  Six months ago I believed that I would never again regain speed with my busted leg.   Little by little it has come back.  I thought this race would be a good test.

Mile one went fine, 6:24 pace.  Mile two was a struggle as my lungs were bothered by the speed and probably smog.  I backed off to save the lungs.  6:57. I felt better during Mile three and could surge the speed up for some stretches.  It was 6:52.  I brought it in at 6:12, probably a 90% effort.   Finished in 20:48.  Not bad.   I think my best here was a couple years ago with a 20:07.   Not bad for a 54 year-old.  I placed 1st in my age group.

So, I'm encouraged that speed is indeed coming back since my injury.   I'll run a 10K at the same location in a couple weeks.  During the winter I find that doing these short races really help my foot speed for the ultras later in the year.

Ryan and Mindy finished well.  Now all of my six kids have run a 5K.

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Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - White Miles: 19.00Hoka MaFate Miles: 18.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 10.00
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