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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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Gotta love the stupid running dreams that ultrarunners have, they tend to be similar.  I had one of the frustrating ones last nights.   Was going to run the Wasatch 100, but the course had been significantly changed into a giant loop course.   I had run the changed course the year before, but for the life of me, I just couldn't figure out where the start was even when trying to examine maps.  Finally I get to the start in time.   But the start was set up like some sort of massive marathon.  I watched a handful of elite runners head off in the first wave and then then I was scrambling to get ready.  Of course my drop bags were missing, oh well.  There were over 2000 runners and we were starting in order of our bibs.   I looked down to my bib and I noticed that I was wearing a hand-draw bib I had made up.  I of course had lost my bib.  But then it occurred to me that they were using chip timing and my custom bib had no chip.  I couldn't start with a fake bib.   No one was around to help.   I was frantic, it all was about to start.  And then I woke up.  Good thing.

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Adventure run in Capitol Reef National Park.  Ran both the Lower Muley Twist loop and the Upper Muley Twist loop.  Spectacular.   


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Wonderful morning run on the Great Western Trail north of Torrey, climbing up above 9,000 feet.  Spectacular views.


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