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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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p.m. five miles with the dog and three without.  Nice evening.   Let's see if I can get another high mileage week.

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6 on the road and 10 on the South side of Lake Mountain.  Found yet another new road.  This one stayed on a south facing slope on top of ridges and was mostly dry from any snow or mud.  At 6,200 feet it looks like it disappears, probably a hunter's trail.  It was pretty steep towards the end.

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Six on the pavement and seven on the treadmill.  Pretty nice outside this morning. Five more during lunch. p.m. five miles with the dog on pavement.

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a.m. Treadmill. p.m. Treadmill

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Treadmill with 5% incline.  Some big miles this week but feeling very good, not a big deal.  Thankful that I have no injuries right not that lets me train like this.  You really miss it when injuries get in the way.

p.m. 8 with the dog.   I'll probably go do the Antelope Island training run tomorrow.  Anyone else going?

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Antelope Island today was like a Utah/Idaho trailrunner convention.  The trails were filled with runners, most who are getting some final training in on the Island before the Buffalo Run when 750+ runners will maroon themselves on the island in a couple weeks to run like crazy.

I was the first to arrive.  The automatic timer on the island gate swung open at 5:30 a.m. and I parked at the parking lot on the Great Salt Lake shore.   I wanted to get some extra miles in before most runner arrived so I ran across the long 7-mile causeway and back, and nice easy tempo run to get my feet moving.  It was great fun to see dawn arrive far out on the lake.  I returned at 7:45 a.m. with just enough time to change, eat, and get ready for some trail running.

Lots of runners showed up by 8:00 a.m. and we caravaned out to the Buffalo Run starting time.   Jim Skaggs explained the suggested route for the day and we took off.  After a mile or so, once we hit the single track, I told buddy Mike Place that it was time to kick it in.  We started to fly ahead of the pack.  My legs just loved to be running on soft single-track again.  Our pace for the rest of that first loop was pretty fast.  I stopped for a bathroom break and Mike took the lead.  He kept the pace going.  I kept him in my sights but at times we were doing sub 7-minute pace.  It was great fun.

Back at our cars, we prepared for the main event, the big 18-mile loop that will begin the real race in a few weeks.   We continued to push it pretty well.  I was feeling the miles and Mike stayed about 50 yards ahead.  But once we hit the soft sandy downhill toward Lone Tree, I kicked it into high gear, curious to see how fast I could run it.  I flew by Mike doing a 5:40 pace.  Great fun!  Near Lone Tree, I was surpised to see Karl Meltzer coming toward me.  He called out my name and we exchanged greetings as he flew by.

Once I hit the 25-mile mark for the morning, I backed off the pace.  I wasn't eating enough but that was OK.  Mike and I ran near each other.  He had a very impressive pace up the switch-backs, but I caught up to him at the Elephant Head trail junction.  His calf was bugging him so his fast pace was over. I hit the 50K mark for the day at about 5:15, so the pace was pretty good.

The rest of the run was enjoyable but uneventful. I brought it in slow, averaging 12:30 pace toward the end.   I just enjoyed the late morning and had ran by many buffalo.  I finished my run about 1 p.m. or so and enjoyed talking to many runners who were resting from their runs.   I had run out of food with three miles to go and ran out of water with a mile to go.  I had refilled my bottle a couple times using snow.  Glad it was there.  The trails were in pretty good shape, only on stretch of 100 yards of mud.  Lots of horse ruts, but hopefully those will get smoothed out by the bikes before race day.  I could tell that all the runners had packed down the trail pretty well.

Four more miles with the dog.  I think the dog went 24 miles with me this week.  She is getting into better shape.

128 miles this week.  That is the most miles I have trained in a week without a 100-mile race to boost the miles.  There were many times this week when I wanted to stop short, but over and over again, I made myself continue through boredom, tired legs, etc.  Should help when times get tough in a race.

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