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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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Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 46.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 7.00Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 32.00
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Power walk with the dog

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Lunchtime up City Creek

After work on the shore of Utah Lake.

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Tough incline treadmill

Lunch up City Creek

p.m. trails around the development.

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Run in the foothills above Midway

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Beautiful long run all the way around the mountain range above Midway.  Ran on the dirt trail along Deer Creek Res, near the railroad tracks, then cut up and followed Deer Creek all the way to Cascade Springs.  Then took the road to Pot Bottom (Wasatch Course), cut up to the ridge road to Wasatch Mountain Park, and down the road into Midway.  This involved about ten miles of running on packed snow.  Great fun.  Only saw two guys on an ATV up there, but the didn't go as I as I did.

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Nice afternoon run from Elberta to Eureka and back.  I did this run several years ago.  It is a nice steady 2,000-foot climb to Eureka and enters canyons, running by old mines and you can select your route on various old railroad beds that are now just used by motorcycles.  Nice because they keep the weeds back and provide a nice track to run on.  So many different routes can be used through those canyons.  At Eureka I used the gas station as an aid station and then ran fast, 90 minutes 10-miles back ot my car.  Great training.

Nice to have done a 100-mile training week.  It has been a long time.  I'm getting more convidence in my leg that it has indeed healed. 

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Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 46.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 7.00Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 32.00
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