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Antelope Island Buffalo Run 100

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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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Funny how I've barely thought about running a 100 on Friday.  I've been so busy, running is about #5 on my priorities lately. My training shows it too.  Oh well.  I guess I better at least start thinking about it.  I'll give it a go, but there is a good chance I'll bail at mile 50 if the hamstring is getting worse.  Today it feels fine.  But if I went running, it would start complaining again.  So, I'll probably just take it easy on Friday and enjoy running with friends.  At least I finally looked at the weather and discovered that it will be cold and windy.  If it is windy at night, that will be pretty brutal out there.  I hope people are prepared for cold.   I'm just hoping for fun.  I know I can't compete as I wish.  It has been almost two years since I really could "compete" in a race and really push it.  For now, I'll just have fun and try to stay away from more injury.

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Treadmill.  For the first time in nearly eight weeks, very little pain in the hamstring as long as I kept the speed slower than 10:00 pace which is a decent 100-mile pace.  So I'm encouraged.  I did have to stop several times to stretch.  So I'm pretty convinced that I am healing.  So, I'll approach this race very different.  In stead of going out fast as usual, I'll maintain more of a steady pace like Matt Watts does.  Hopefully that will work.  It is going to be really cold.

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Race: Antelope Island Buffalo Run 100 (100 Miles) 23:11:05, Place overall: 20, Place in age division: 4
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A very short report.  This was my third running of the Buffalo Run 100.  With a bad hamstring, I decided to just treat it as a training run, take it easy, and see what I could do, likely quitting at 50 miles.  I hadn't really trained much in the past 8 weeks since straining the muscle running a silly 5K.

The hamstring started to complain during the first mile, so I just held back.  But I had a great time.  For much of the first 40 miles I ran near my friend, Kristle Liddle, the eventual woman's winner.  It was fun to talk, stategize, and try to help her draft against the wind.  I encouraged her to blast past another woman who we were trailing for miles so she would mentally crush the other runner.  We ran very steady 10:30 miles and rarely walked.  At the Ranch we did pass the other runner. By mile 40, when I stopped to put on more layers for the evening, I fell behind, almost caught back up but just couldn't quite get there.   It got very cold, but I had plenty on to keep me warm. Wind chill during the night would dip into the teens and my water bottle would freeze up between aid stations.

I finished my first 50 in about 9:30.  That shocked me, I didn't think I was going that fast.  On the bright side, I never felt bone pain at all from my break last year.  I'm back from that!   Also on the bright side, by mile 50 the hamstring felt fine (or just as sore as my quads and other muscles.)   I was ready to roll.

I charged up the hill and was about to catch other runners when I ran out of gas.  I struggled for energy for a long time after that, so had to back off.  Buddy Tom Jackson caught up and went ahead.  But only two other runners passed me for the rest of the way.  For the last 25 miles, I just concentrated on averaging 15:00 miles including stops.   It was a cold, but wonderful night.   In the morning, the bacon at the Ranch brought me back to life.

I predicted correctly when I would see the front-running 50-milers coming toward me and I had fun greeting much of the front-mid-pack, most of who somehow knew my name.   Great fun.

I really took the last couple hours easy, just enjoying the morning.  I could not see any other runners ahead nor any behind.  I came in alone at 23:11.  I was very pleased to finish my first sub-24-hour 100 in two years.   It feels like I'm almost back.  I put in about an 80% effort and anxious to try to run a race at 100% effort soon.

Next up, North Coast 24-hour in Cleveland, OH, in four weeks, one of the most competitive fixed-time races in the country.   My hope is always a 100-mile PR and 24-hour distance PR.   We shall see.



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