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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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I guess it has been awhile since I posted and I'm getting queries.  Last week was pretty bad, a little better this week.  I have a doctor's appointment Thursday.   It looks like the knee is pretty much all healed, but the area below the knee is not making progress.  Oh well.

Mentally I've shifted.  I'm not a runner anymore so I'm finding other things to help fill my obsessive nature.  I've cancelled any race plans for April and May and soon will cancel June.  But life is good.   I'm just hoping for a day that I can walk without pain and hike in the mountains.  I'm up seven pounds but I can notice that my metabolism has changed.  My body is getting used to not burning thousands of calories per day.  I haven't been swimming, just too boring, and why work out like crazy?  So just resting.

I'll be at Buffalo Run on Saturday to crew my son Kevin.  I'll also be at Salt Flats 100 to either crew my brother Bob in his first 100 attempt or captain an aid station.   Squaw Peak 50?   I had hoped to run slowly with my son, but that is very unlikely.  I'll probably come up to watch the action.

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Rough day today.  Too much walking at a conference at the Salt Palace and checking out the new City Creek.  Better this evening.

I'm scheduled for a bone scan on Monday.  The doctor is now believing I have a stress fracture.  I had him check the MRI again and sure enough the scan didn't go low enough on the leg.  Why is the lower leg still swelling up about 7 weeks?

I get the feeling that despite the thousands of legs he's worked with that my injury is something he hasn't seen before.  He just couldn't believe that something in my leg is pinching the sciatic nerve.  He took an X-ray of my back, but it is fine.  I told him it was.  Then he asks me again how I'm feeling that pain. I showed him by bending my leg and putting pressure on the calf.  I guess it is no big surprise that my injury is pretty unique.  No one else would run 100 miles on a sore leg.

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Enjoyed being out on the trail for the first time in seven weeks, even if it was just walking with trekking poles.   I did do a little jogging here and there. I crewed for son Kevin in the Buffalo Run 50-mile.   I had fun jumping down on the trail numerous times, not just at the aid stations, to cheer him and see how he was doing.  People got a kick out of it, seeing me over and over again for the last 35 miles.   It got pretty hot so I made sure Kevin was doing the right things for the heat.  He hung in there and finished in a PR of 11:47.   It was nice to see so many friends who were nice and concerned about my runamok disease.

Despite being worn and and doing too much, me leg feels great this evening.   It makes me wonder if I will recover faster if I use it more.   We'll see what the bone scan says.  I'll probably have the results Tuesday.

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