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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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Hamstring still a problem, guess I'll have to shift to cross-training.

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Being extra careful.  The hamstring is healing, but is still a problem....it is one of those two-week injuries.  I'm very likely to skip the 10K on Saturday.  Hate to miss it since two of my kids are running, but it probably will be snow covered anyway.   I'll probably just go and cheer them on.

Work has been very busy anyway.  The long commute to SLC is a bother, about 2:45 total each day using the train.  Really cuts into any free time, but I can get work done on the train or sleep.

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Race: SLCTC Winter 10K (6.214 Miles) 00:44:12, Place overall: 42, Place in age division: 2
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I've been battling a slow-healing hamstring/glut strain.  I wasn't going to run the race, but in the morning tested things out on the treadmill and decided to go ahead.  Son Ryan and daughter Mindy also ran.  A snow storm started a half hour before the start adding an additional challenge.

I started careful, but things seemed to hang together.   During the first mile a couple guys passed me who looked like they were in my age group, one in green,maybe in the next AG up. The other guy had a black shirt on. I decided to keep them both in my sights. Splits for the first three miles were 6:39, 7:02, and 6:57.  I was warmed up and felt pretty good.  I passed the the black shirt guy, but he hung with me.  At the turn around, he offered to work with me drafting on the way back.  The headwind and snow was pretty challenging.   I took the first half mile or so and then he took a turn. Once I felt a little rested, I would pass him and kick it up a notch.  We were able to pass a couple people and caught up with the green shirt guy (Dee).  Mile 4 was a slow 7:20.

During Mile 5, I just couldn't keep going fast enough in the point so put the brakes on to rest a little.  Mile 5 was 7:25.  But then I kicked it up again, breathing hard, but the legs felt good, the hamstring pain was not too bad.    I passed green-shirt guy and was closing in on black-shirt guy.  Mile 6 was 7:12, still in the stiff wind.   But then green-shirt guy kicked it up and I matched him but couldn't hold it.   I finished 20 seconds behind black-shirt guy (who won my age group) and about 10 seconds behind green-shirt guy (who won the age group above me).  It was great competition.   It was nice to be running fast again after doing very little the past ten days.  

I finished in 44:12, second place in age group.   Ryan finished in about 54 minutes and won his age group.   Mindy finished in about 1:25, her first 10k and was able to run it the entire way.  We all had a great time.

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