| 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 Favorite Blogs: |
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Was lazy and slept in, got to love 9-hour sleep-ins, don't do that often. I will probably do some running after work. With the big mileage base done, tapering starts with focus on speed and heart rate. Rex Lee 10K is on the schedule for Saturday with thousands of runners. I've won my age group 2 out of the last 3 years, came in second in 2009. Last year it was a 9K but this year it looks like they changed the course back to 10K. PR could be possible. It is a fair course, with hills, but few turns. This year they are starting the 5K first, and the courses merge for the last 1K. This means when I will merge, the 5K runners will really be slow, probably walkers. That could be a problem.
p.m. Ran crazy fast on the treamill, three miles, each about 6:15 pace. Hopefully by Friday 6:00 pace will feel more comfortable. Not so right now, the old legs and heart don't like it. The danger doing this is pulling a muscle or putting too much stress on the bad knee. I'll watch out. But this week it is about speed. Next week probably hills. |
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More tempo running on the treadmill. Felt easier today but still painful. Four miles in 25:30. Backed off but brought in 10K at 40:25. Some step-offs along the way. Average for nine miles, 6:53. Seems like it is making a difference.
lunch: 5 easy miles.
p.m. Hill treadmill, 3x7:30x15% Then easy mile. machine thinks I climbed 2,500 feet.
Cooldown mile, 6:10 pace.
So much for tapering today. |
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Very similar workout to yesterday morning on the treadmill. Tough, but I can tell is it helpful to the heart, lungs, and legs. I'd rather be outside, but the crazy machine helps me do tempo runs.
p.m. 5 miles |
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Similar routine to the last couple days, tempo on the treadmill. 10K in 39:40, but stepped off about 8 times, so it was more like a series of speed sessions. Left shin was sore and didn't go away, so I cut it short...don't want a shin splint.
Sweatshirt lady was in again today. Comes in, wraps the sweatshirt around her waist for her hike on the treadmill, about a half mile. Then does funny lunges around the room for a couple minutes, and then ten minutes on the floor working on abs. No sweat involved at anytime and then she's done.
Lunch: three easy |
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| | Slept in. Got to rest up for the big 10K. Actually, the shin still sore, so letting it heal up. | | Add Comment |
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Rex Lee 10K (6.21 Miles) 00:42:24, Place overall: 26, Place in age division: 2 | |
This is the fifth year I've run this 10K. I like to run it because Rex Lee's wife grew up with my mom and she's always been kind to me when I've met her.
Last year this was sadly a 9K, but they got things fixed. This distance was good. This is a tough course to get a PR because of the hill. It is about 200 feet of climbing. This year the because of the start location, the hill was moved to mile 2 instead of 1. That made it tougher. I like to get that hill over with on very fresh legs.
I said hi to Mary Ann Schauerhamer at the start. She asked what my target was, and I told her 42:00. Turns out that she took it easy and ran a steady 42-minute pace the entire way. That threw me off at first because I was keeping up with her for the first mile with a 100-foot climb. The split was 6:41., which was too slow. Not a good start, lost 20 seconds. The hill mile split was 7:33. OK, I knew I'd really have to go negative splits now on the steady long downhill starting at the MTC. Mary Ann was less that 100 yards ahead.
For the next couple miles, I ran almost side-by-side with the third-place woman who had talked to me at the start. She would catch up, I would surge ahead, she would catch up, and we would do this over and over again. Good motivation.
Mile 3 was 6:19, and Mile 4 was 6:33. Good work. But than she surged ahead and I just couldn't find the push to keep up anymore. Time to hang on. Mile 5 was 7:02, still OK, but I lost the PR bringing it in at 7:16 pace. I just didn't have the motivation to red-line it to the finish.
I crossed the finish line in 42:24, in 26th place out of about 480 runners. I got secon in my age group. Senator Mike Lee announced the awards and of course joked about my name.
I missed the PR by 20 seconds, but that is OK. It is a tough course to PR on. However, I set a course PR by almost a minute.
Afterwards I met Keith Barton who beat me. I always compete with with him in my age group but am always just behind. We had a nice talk. He is going to run Squaw Peak for the first time and is planning on doing a Grand Canyon R2R2R. Its nice that my writings are inspiring road runners to give ultras a try.
p.m. four miles with the dog, Jimmer. I'm renaming the dog to Jimmer. I'm sure she will like the name. |
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