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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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Montrail Wildwoods - Red Miles: 14.00Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 26.00
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Feeling much better today.  Appetite coming back. Only a little soreness in the legs.

I need to get a handle on this bonk issue.  If this happens again on a 100, I'll quit rather than suffer like that for hours.

Ordered one of those finger oxygen testers and plan to do some training with my heart monitor.  I'll plan on doing more altitude running.  Also, need to look at changing nutrition.  I ran mostly eating gels for the first 50, but once the stomach bonked, it wouldn't tolerate them. Eating them made me feel worse. Lots of things to consider.

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Did a crazy recovery run, just 4 days after finishing TRT100.  Went up Timpanogos for the first time this year.  The amount of snow if more than I have ever seen, even on some early June summits.  The avalange fields are huge and will remain there clear into next summer.  Knowing the snow routes, I was able to glissade from the saddle down all the way past the rockslide basin, over 2,000 feet, with just a few sections of trail to run through.

I took my sweet time, 4:45, but it was a good test.  I was worrying that I was losing my running mojo, but I charged right up, passing many very fit college kids who were flabergasted as I ran by.

Altitude.  Breathing did well, even up to the summit.  But I got a bad altitude headache starting at 11,000 feet.   My stomach and lungs were also sore.   But it all went well.   I'll post a bunch of pictures on facebook.  The goats were just sunning themselves on the shelf below the saddle.   They let me get pretty close.

Montrail Wildwoods - Red Miles: 14.00
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Ran a group run with the Salt Lake ultrarunners up on the pioneer trail.  Started at Jeremy Ranch, went through East Canyon, up Little Emigration Canyon to Big Mountain, ran the Wasatch course backward to Swallow Rocks, then left it and ran a ridge and down into the canyon taking us to Little Dell Res.  Finished at I-80.   First half felt good, but then started to melt in the heat and took it easy for the second half.  Did the whole thing in about 5:45.   Fun to see everyone.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 26.00
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Montrail Wildwoods - Red Miles: 14.00Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 26.00
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