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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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Good day.  Tough morning workout eliptical and 3 miles jogging at 20% incline.  Nearly pain-free, just a little, level 1 pain when jogging.  Afternoon went up Lake mountain with trekking poles.  Tons of deer up there.  Took the ridge trail to the top following tracks in the snow of deer.  Good to get up out of the gunk.  No pain going up, Just a little going down.

Chance of running Rocky increased to 30%.  We'll see.

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Another good workout with careful uphill jogging, very little pain.   I think I'm now 50/50 probability to going to Rocky.  We'll see what the xrays and doctor says tomorrow.  

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Went to the ortho.  Took x-rays.  Doctor looks at it, "yep, there is a stress fracture."  I made him show and explain.  But what he pointed to was a calcius lump that I've had on the bone for years. I argued that its been there for years. He found an xray from two years ago and we compared and could see a simlar lump.  He measured, but still thinks there is a stress fracture there.  Well, since I still have some weight-bearing pain, I'll believe him.  So no racing untill pain is gone.   I'll keep working out if no pain.  If this is a fracture, it is very small and hopefully will heal fast.  Its been about ten weeks since I started feeling the pain, so hopefully I'll be healed soon.   No Rocky Raccoon 100 next week.  My first true DNS where I lose entry fee.

Lesson learned.  Don't run pavement, espcially without cushion shoes like Hokas.

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Good workout, figured out a good hard pain-free workout that will maintain fitness nicely until I can really run again.

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uphill treadmill hiking and jogging up to 35% and eliptical.  4 hours in the crazy room.

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