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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
92.00
Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 39.00Hoka - Stinson Miles: 53.00
Total Distance
14.00

Found my journal I wrote as a 18-year-old freshman at BYU.  Read in it how I ran consistantly for a couple weeks.  With just that minimal effort I clocked a 5:30 mile and a 9:00 1.5 mile.  I wrote that going over two miles just seemed too far. I soon quit running.  Too bad that I didn't recognize that I actually had some talent for running.  I could have run some fast 5Ks back then if I really trained.

Got up at 4:30 a.m. in Midway and again did another loop, climbing up to the top of the ridge, running down the road and then going up to the location of the Pot Bottom, following the Wasatch 100 course for the next several miles and then bailing out to head back to the condo.  It was a great morning run.  New route in Blue.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
11.00

Out at 4:30.  Did a loop run to the west in Eagle Mountain.   Using the Bondi B Hokas as training shoes now.  It will be interesting to see how many miles I can get on them before they totally fall apart.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 11.00
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Total Distance
14.00

Out at 3:30 a.m.   Ran on the east side foothills of Lake Mountain along the powerlines almost to Enoch Pass.  Didn't reach the burn area from a month ago, but probably came very close.  It was still dark when I turned around.

Map of my runs today and yesterday.

Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
53.00

Details later, time to sleep.

Accomplished a double Kings Peak, trailhead to summit and back twice. I guess I'm the first crazy to do this. Four others tried this weekend but shut it down after one trip. Kings Peak is the highest peak in Utah, 13,528 feet. It is very remote. Each trip was about 26.5 miles, 53 total. Boulder hopping to the summit in the dark was a tough challenge on the first trip.

Took my sweet time since there was no reason to race it and I have a week-long backpack starting Monday.  First trip, mostly in the dark was tough.  Did the cut-off wrong coming back in the dark, had to do a half hour or more extra boulder hopping.  Also got stuck on a very steep snow field that iced up after dusk.  Went out on it and had no choise but to continue across about 100 feet.  Took me about 15 minutes of careful inching to avoid slipping and crashing on rocks below.   Second trip was tough on the body.  Sore lungs from breathing deeply, gut issues, and the summit section took me a full hour with lots of rests. Got dizzy and didn't want to pass out and tumble down a cliff.

But it was great fun and nice to take time to enjoy the mountains.   Thanks jun for getting many runners up there this weekend.

Hoka - Stinson Miles: 53.00
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Total Distance
92.00
Hoka - Bondi B Miles: 39.00Hoka - Stinson Miles: 53.00
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