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Provo River 1/2 marathon

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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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Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 20.00
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One of the rewards of doing a very long run on the weekend is taking time off.  I did and have enjoyed the rest.  Went out to do a quick recovery road run with the dog and and the legs felt great and strong.   Plans for Saturday are to first run the Provo River half marathon with its fast downhill course...PR in the cards.  I'll get up to the start early and put in some warm up trail miles.  After I finish, drive up to Hobble Creek canyon, run in seven miles to Little Valley and then pace Mark Ellison in the Katcina Mosa 100K for his last 24 miles.  I'll probably run backward on the course until I find him.  So I'll do 50+ miles for the day.  Should be fun.  My wife's out of town, son at youth conference, so what else is there to do but run?

For the 1/2, I wear my Boston Marathon shirt to impersonate a hot shot road runner, and then I'll get into my true persona and wear my trail garb with handhelds and to head up into the mountains.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 4.00
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Race: Provo River 1/2 marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:32:10, Place overall: 57, Place in age division: 3
Total Distance
48.00

What a wonderful day of running.  Got up bright and early and headed to Provo to catch the buses up to South Provo Canyon for the Provo 1/2 marathon.  I took one of the first busses so I could get in some trail miles in the hills far above the start to get away from the chaos there.   Dawn arrived as I was running up the Great Western Trail.  I also did some laps around the massive field up there.  As I came down I stopped at the top of the hill and watched the total chaos with a couple other guys laughing and the sights down below.  As happens every year a guy with a bull horn tells people the wrong place for the start location and people go up and down the road as busses keep trying to come into the very tight dropoff place.   It is sadly very funny to watch.  You just have to wonder why they don't learn from the mistakes and just repeat them over and over again every year.  I need to remember to never do those races again.  They are just too silly.  The awards are silly, the shirts are silly.

I started out fast as usual hoping for a PR, but the hill they added last year and this in the middle of the race just saps the energy and at that point I backed off, knowing that I still had big miles to do the rest of the day.  Still I did fine.  The cyclists going up the Parkway were pretty rude.  Some were determined to ride as fast as they could in their lane dispite the flow of runners coming down.  I tried to let then know that hundreds were on their way.  One guy who almost hit me screemed at me.  Strange that they just couldn't realize that something was different today and they needed to be more cautious.  Bikers get a bad rep at time and many times it is justified.  I hope they changed their ways once the entire parkway became clogged with runners/walkers.

I reeled in a guy that looked like he was in my age group, caught and passed him on the last mile.   My splits were: 5:54, 6:22, 6:22, 6:44, 6:23, 7:23, 7:30, 7:48, 7:19, 7:55, 6:44, 7:51, and 7:55 to the finish.  Had fun seeming friends there.   They do a nice job at the finish, loved the pancakes.  Results were posted very fast.  I was 60th out of 1,395 runners.  Finished in the top 5%.  That is now my goal for all road races.

Well, from there I drove straight up to Hobble Creek canyon to join in with the ultra race, Katcina Mosa 100K.  I ran in 7.4 miles (big climb) to the Little Valley aid station where I was to meet Mark Ellison and pace him 22 miles to the finish.   I first spent a half hour resting there and trying to help Heath Thurston continue his race.  He ended up DNFing there.  It was great fun though as many other friends arrived.  Mark still wasn't there so I ran backwards on the course about 1.5 miles until I found him.  He was running OK but was having stomach issues.

The rest of the day was a complete blast!   I love pacing during ultras because you are fresher than your runner (I had run 14 fewer miles).  I just played all day.  Sometimes sticking with Mark, helping him and other runners near him, and I made some new friends.  Other times I blasted up and down trails.  My energy level was very high and I felt very strong and fast.   At the aid station I could camp out there and feed my face like crazy, again giving me plenty of energy.  I had no stress of racing, just the fun of serving others, sight-seeing, and running like crazy.   Mark finally found his second wind with ten miles to go and I was able to get him to run pretty fast on the wonderful single track in Dry Canyon.  I love that section and at times blasted along the rolling trail then waiting for Mark to catch up.  When we dumped out on the pavement, I discovered that I could run at a 7-minute mile still if I wanted to.  It was funny finishing the 48 miles I felt much better than I did finishing the half marathon in the morning.   At the finish, were so many ultra friends, I knew practically everyone.  We had fun swaping a few stories before I had to leave.   The weather turned out to be perfect.  A thunderstorm rolled in during the early afternoon that really cooled things off and the cloud cover and breeze kept in nice and cool.  Usually this race is blazing hot and uncomfortable.   So ends a perfect day of running.  It feels like I put in a great training day, tempo run, hills, and trails.

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