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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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Total Distance
121.00
Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 7.00Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 116.00
Total Distance
7.00

3.5 treadmill miles untill I wanted to kill myself.  Running indoors after that Grand Canyon run just seems criminal.  So, I went outside and ran 3.5 on the JRP.

OK, I decided to run the Salt Flats 100 on Friday.  Should be chilly, windy weather, kind of like Buffalo Run 100.   It is a first-time race with aid stations far apart.

Going to go buy some Hoka Bondi-Bs for it this afternoon.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 7.00
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Total Distance
8.00

Eight miles on wet roads, JRP and Lehi/Saratoga roads.  Great to be outside.  But then I'll watch Biggest Loser tonight and get mad because that show is teaching America that the only way to workout is being in a gym.

Took the Hoka Bondi Bs for a test drive.  Couldn't detect any defects, no hot spots felt or pressure points.  I need to take them on some uneven trails.

I know I shouldn't be doing this, but I'm dreaming about my next bucket-list adventure run.  95-miles around Mount Rainier on the Wonderland trail.  I grew up at the foot of that mountain.  Only a couple guys have done a solo-self-supported run around it.   Weather is always the big problem there, so I would probably need to go there with very little notice to get the great weather.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
7.00

28 degrees out this morning.  What is up with that?  Wimped out and did treadmill, testing out the new Hokas some more.  Still seem fine, just debating which insoles to use.  Just easy miles, taper run.  If there is only two weeks between 100-mile runs, there is no real training in-between, just recovery and taper.   This will be a good test for later this summer when I do three 100s within six weeks.

Looking at my last year results on ultrasignup.com. I noticed something interesting.  They show your overall place but also place by gender.  I noticed that in every race I ran during the past 12 months that I only was chicked at most twice in each race.  Some races no women beat me, others only one, and a couple two.  That is a huge difference from past years, another indicator of progress.  Some of these were huge races like Rocky Raccoon, Wasatch, Bear, Bighorn, Squaw Peak, etc.   I don't like the way they calculate ranking.  It is all based in comparison to the guy who won the race.  In Rocky where Ian posted that record winning time, even though I placed high, 34th, I get a 59% ranking for that race pulling my average down.   Also, it doesn't take into account recent years, my low placements years ago still bring down my average.  So it is hard to use that ranking to really rank the competition.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 7.00
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Race: Salt Flats 100 (98 Miles) 21:36:36, Place overall: 2
Total Distance
99.00

My 40th 100-mile finish is in the books.   This is a new 100-mile race and this year it was a free test-run.  Good thing, there were a bunch of challenges but the rookie race director has learned a lot.

The race was held near the Bonneville Salt Flats, mostly on the very remote islands to the north.  I thought the race would be flatter, but it had several pretty long and tough climbs up to the top of some rpasses giving incredible views of the salt flats. It looked like a frozen ocean.

The biggest problem was that the race director marked the course a week in advance.  As we were running we discovered that someone had carefully removed all the markers for about 75% of the course.  It must have taken them hours to do.  The race director had to quit racing and remark portions and help direct those in the rear.   I was the only one who ran the right course without help because I used my GPS starting at mile 30. I had critical turns marked.  The winner was an elite local runner, Jay who finished in sub-17, but we think he skipped about 3 miles of the course because of marking problems.  One section at night was impossible without a GPS.  There should have been glow sticks, you just couldn't see any of the markers at night.

Anyway, I'll work with the RD to greatly simplify the course for next year.  It was just too complex.  It could be more straight-forward and still visit the same areas of these islands.  Also all aid stations were about ten miles apart.  The is pretty far as you start slowing down.

The weather was a worry, but we only had short stretches of flurries.  However, we had constant wind.  For miles is would be a 20 mph headwind and at times 30 mph.  I took it easy but was amazed that I still had a good time.  If I would have really pushed it, no telling what I could of done, but the wind made it tough and I really worried about the other runners getting lost.  When I worry, I slow way down.   After midnight, it got really chilly when there was a headwind, windchill below freezing.  I had to stop for ten minutes and warm up in a car.  When I got pretty cold, I kept getting very sleeping and started to stumble around.

Anyway I had a good time.  For some reason I am hardly sore at all.  I can't understand it.  By far I came out of this 100 the less sore.  Perhaps the cool weather the entire time in the 30s and 40s helped.  Maybe it is because I did that 110 mile Grand Canyon run two weeks ago.   I could run uphills the entire race just fine.  I just got lazy and at times walked because the next runner behind me was more than two hours behind.  No one was pushing me and I knew I couldn't catch Jay.  But I could crank out a sub-10-minute mile at will when I wanted to.

There was one section on Crater Island way to the north that felt as remote as I have ever run.  It felt like we were running off the end of the world.  It was amazing.  There was a guy with a SUV aid station at the far end. 

Lots more details later.  I wish I would have taken some pictures.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 101.00
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Total Distance
121.00
Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 7.00Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 116.00
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