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Moab Red Hot 50K (34 miles)

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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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OK, I passed the first 100-mile recovery test this morning.  I was able to jog down the stairs without grabbing the rail.   What a victory.   Recovery going well.  Usually my taste buds are wacked out for a couple days.  No so, this time.  I suspect this difference is that I didn't get dehydrated or hot.

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Still taking it easy.  Left quad still isn't pain-free going down stairs.  So still not going to risk pulling it.   Besides that, it feels like I've bounced back.   Have gotten plenty of sleep all week.

For fun I compiled all my ultra race results.  57 finishes.   Check it out.  Oh, and also notice the changing banner on my blog, lots of different pictures of races and adventure runs I've done.

I've had a good string of results for my last five 100s where there were at least 100 starters.  My finishing rates (top percentage) were:  17.1, 17.1, 17.8, 14, 12.2.   Finishing in the top 12.2%  of a 100 is the second best I have done.  The best was 2007 Leadville, with a 10.2% finish.   Both were very strong races for me.

Of course, I have places well in much smaller 100s, winning three.  I guess last year's Moab 100 was pretty good, with a 4th place finish out of 45 starters, for 8.9%.   Across the Years, 24-hour run was also good, top 10.4%.  I plan to enter that again this year, going for the 48-hour race.

Funny that for distances marathon and shorter, I almost always finish better than the top 10%.   Usually between top 5-8%.   So maybe I should turn into a sprinter.  Ha, ha.  The big difference is those 100s attract national competition and can be very competitive.   The huge short road races on average have a less competative field.

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Race: Moab Red Hot 50K (34 miles) (34.5 Miles) 06:45:41
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I ran Moab Red Hot 50k as a fun-run recovery run to get the legs working again after Rocky Raccoon 100 last Saturday.   This race is like an ultrarunner convention for Utah and Colorado runners because it is well attended by many of the usual ultrarunners from both states.   The Colorado contingent is always kind to me and I have some good friends from that group, so this is a fun event to see many running friends from both states.

I drove down this morning, on the road at 3:30 a.m., arriving at the Gemini Bridges before 7 a.m., plenty of time to get ready for the 8 p.m. start.   It was below 20 degrees at the start, so pretty chilly.  This year there was a ton of snow.  I think we ran on at least 15 miles of snow.  Some of it was pretty deep.

I decided to not race this run, but just have fun, meet some runners, and not push it hard.   After greeting many people at the start, we were off.  I positioned my self mid-pack and just took it easy.   For the first two miles I tried to keep up with fellow ultra team member from Salt Lake, Eve Davies, who was running with her dog.  I kept her in view, but after two miles it felt like I was on loop 5 of Rocky Racoon.  The left quad was sore and the knee was starting to hurt.  I had thoughts of bailing out, but kept on going.

The snow was an amazing challenge.  At times it was fairly deep, requiring some fast footwork and high stepping to get in a nice rythmn.   On the flats you had to just lean forward and keep your momentum going to push through the snow.  At the top of the rim it was about two feet deep.  I wondered how the front-runners made it through the section.   Usually there is a fast downhill from the rim, but it wasn't fast today, pretty slow.  I had to be careful not to twist my bad ankle.  

After two hours, I felt much better, more like Loop 3 of Rocky.   I was able to push ahead of Eve and didn't see her again until the finish.   At times I would test the legs out and run pretty fast, passing many runners, but I didn't want to get the heart rate up for very long so backed off.

What was really interesting to me is that I struggled the most on the flats.  It would use the same muscles that weren't fully recovered from the flat 100 last Saturday.  I really enjoyed the hills up and down much better and could push the uphills pretty hard, always catching mid-pack runners around me.  

At the half-way point, I caught up with Cory Johnson of Ogden, and we had a fun time running and talking for a couple miles.   He then went ahead.  My knee was having challenges on the hard slickrock.  It eventually calmed down.

I continued to really enjoy the afternoon.   The snow was blinding in the sun, and I think I put my sunglasses on too late and sunburned the eyes a little bit.  They are pretty tired tonight.   Well, I kept on pushing ahead and got to meet other runners.

I did blunder at one point.  I was following footprints instead of flags and started down a wash with many footprints.  Obviously many runners had gone down this way, but soon I noticed footprints also headed back up and no flags, so I headed back and then saw that I missed a turn.   That was an extra half mile.

As I neared the finish, very kind cheers when out, "Davy Crockett's coming!"   Wow, that was nice.   I finished in 6:45.   Not bad.  The course seemed to be about 15-20 minutes slower this year, we'll see in the results.  I heard a rumor that they might have cut out a mile or two this year, but I didn't notice it.

In the other two years I ran the race, I felt wasted at the finish, but this year I felt super.  I wasn't walking funny and felt fine on the drive home.   It was a fun day.  Now and then it really is fun to not "race" a race and just enjoy the run and do some sight-seeing.  On the shuttle back, I was able to finally meet Chris Boyak for Colorado and also met FRBer Bryce.

To get a feel for this race, view the video I took during the race last year.  Keep in mind that this year there was snow everywhere.

See a video of the deepest section of snow.

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