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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 Olympus Orange Miles: 115.00
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Early morning run out between Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain by the ridge. Snagged three more Strava CRs, these a little tougher because some newer ultra runners run out there.  But generally it was easy.  Starting to taper for Salt Flats, but want to keep the legs loose.

p.m. 5 miles out by the Church farm, two tempo runs.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 14.00
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Race: Salt Flats 100 (100 Miles) 24:15:00, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
101.00

This was my third year running Slat Flats 100.  This year, three elite runners who signed up didn't start.  I wondered it the door would be open for mear motals.  I took the lead from start across the Bonneville Speedway on the Salt Flats.  My first miles were 7:44, 7:58, 8:12, 8:13, and then I slowed from there.  About mile seven I started to be passed.  By mile 20, eight runners were ahead of me.  But at mile 23 is a three-mile hill that rises about 1,000 feet.  I charged up the hill, passing all eight runners and was the first to the top at the aid station there.   I kicked in gear down the other side, clocking 8:15, 8:26, and 9:01, stretching my lead to about a mile by the time I reached the next aid station at mile 31.5.  The people including friends cheered, but they looked shocked to see me leading. I aarrived so soon that the aid station had not been totally set up yet.  After the next big climb my lead was about two miles.  I was very pleased with my hill strength.  I started to wonder if I could indeed win this race.   But reality set in on the next section, a nasty 10-miles of mud flats where your feet sink in a little.  I just can't run it fast, so a few runners caught up and passed me.  I hoped that during the night I could again run all the hills and catch up.  But it started raining and by 10 p.m. it pretty much poured all night into the morning, non-stop.  I was foolish and brought the wrong clothes.  I thought I had a good rain coat, and put it on at mile 80 but learned that it wasn't water proof.  The next 10-mile section was brutal and I froze in the cold 40 degree rain.  When I finally reached the 90-mile aid station, I had no choice but the plead to be allowed to warm up in a car.  They were very nice and it took about an hour for me to stop shivering and dry out most of my clothes.  I never lost my placing, because I had at least an hour lead on the next runners.  When they arrived, I took off with new energy and stretched a two-mile lead by the time I reached the 95-mile aid station.  But again, I was soaked to the core and had to again sit in a car for 30 minutes.  I asked if they had a poncho and they did have one of those cheap emergency ones.  But it did the trick.  The last 5 miles were brutal, pouring rain and at times 40 mph wind blowing from the salt flats now covered in water, looking like a lake.  I finished in 5th place out of 54 starters.  I looks like about 30 runners DNFed and there was at least a couple serious incidents, a possible air lift and a lost runner during the storm.  So, pretty brutal.   The 50-mile race the next morning could not be run on the course now buried in water and totally muddy elsewhere.  So they just run out-and-back on pavement in the storm.

This was my 61st 100-mile finish and coldest I have been in one.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 101.00
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Total Distance
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Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 115.00
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