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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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Taper week to get ready for Old Pueblo 50.   After a very encouraging 15k road race run on Saturday, I've feeling just about ready.  The only thing really missing is trail conditioning because of all the roads and treadmills.   I really need to get some ankle toughening in.  So this morning, I hit the trails.   I ran out to the Eagle Mountain area.  I climbed up and ran along the ridges overlooking Utah County and the Ranches.  Heading out there, I did have to carefully go around a couple bad mud bogs, but most of the road was nice and soft and very runnable.  The temperature was perfect, about 40 degrees.  I felt strong and fast, but tentative with the ankles.  Coming down from the ridge, I ran down a very fun motorcycle trail that isn't known by runners (I never see any other tracks on it).  I hit about a dozen small patches of snow, but just with an inch, no problem.   The views are always incredible, especially this morning.  The city lights of Utah County were reflecting against the snow covered mountains behind them, lighting everything up before dawn.  It was a wonderful morning run, great to be away from the treadmill. I did get home with muddy shoes, but nothing terrible.  My left ankle was a little sore.  I rolled that one a couple times a couple months ago.  I can tell that it just needs to trail time to toughen up.

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Same route and time (4 a.m. - 6 a.m.) as yesterday.  The big difference today was that it was 52 degrees out.  Wow, it felt like summer.  Shorts, no gloves.  It was nice.  The snow patches were melting fast causing some slick muddy spots coming down from the ridge. I almost ended up on my butt several times.   Left lower ankle again came out sore again from all the uneven surface.   I'll probably have to rest it up for Saturday's 50.

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Race: Old Pueblo 50 (50.6 Miles) 10:27:00
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I ran again in the Old Pueblo 50-mile trail race in the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Tucson, Arizona.   I previously ran in the 2005 and 2006 editions of this race and was pleased to return.  This year I crushed my PR on this course by 1:14:00.  I had a good race.  Click here to read my detailed race report.  They haven't published the results yet, but I believe I finished in about 25th place out of about 140 starters.

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