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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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Recovery going very well.  Stomach finally recovered, appetite almost back.  Very little soreness in the quads.  One little blister on the right ankle.   Looks like I'll be running again by Wednesday.   I'm going through the usual kicking myself, recalling all the times I was lazy out there, especially the last 8 miles.  Oh well. Makes me anxious for the next 100 race, but that won't be until June.  Time to pretend I can run marathons.  Boston is three weeks away.

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Treadmill, 7:30 pace at 2%.   Back in the saddle.  Right quad a little heavy, but besides that, had no difficulties.  Very odd, it just feels like this is a Monday after a longish run on Saturday.  The resilience of the human body is amazing once it adapts to a high level of stress and work.  My co-workers like to recall how in 2004 after my first 100-finish, I limped around in sandals for several days at work and looked really beat up.  I couldn't run for nine days.   Now, I return to work on Monday and no one knows I ran a 100 over the weekend unless they ask. "Did you go running this weeked?"  "Yep."   "How far?"   "Uh, 100." To me it is facinating how the body systems can deal with this now like it is no big deal.

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Treadmill at 7:30 pace, 2% incline.

I noticed that I weigh 170 pounds.  Wow, I don't think I've been in the 160s since the '70s.  I'm going to have to find my plaid bellbottoms and bring out the disco music.  "Stayin alive...."  Yep, that is what I'm doing.  You punk youngsters were still in diapers or as my kids like to put it, you were "still dead."

Time to start training for Boston.  It is in just over two weeks.   I need to get the foot speed up.   Uh, I guess I should run a little pavement too.   Do I really have to?

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Treadmill  4 miles at 6:58 pace and then backed off to 7:30, then to 8:00

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Treadmill. First 10 at 7:30 pace with 2%, and periodic step-offs.   Last 4 did spurts of 10% incline.

Weight 167.  Will target 165 which will be 12 pounds lighter than what I was when running RR100.  Feeling lighter on the feet.  Also doing more upper body and some core.

Busy this weekend helping with the Internet broadcast of General Conference.  This is my 20th conference.  We've come a long way in 10 years.   My conference experience always involves a computer in front of me.

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