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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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At 3 a.m. I went up into the foothills for a hilly workout on trails.  As I was running up the road, a Saratoga cop car came by.   He took a close look at me but didn't bother to stop.   I ran a 2.3-mile loop three times and took some side trips up canyons to get some elevation climb.

It was a real struggle this morning and not very fun.  The ankle was really complaining and I have another issue that I'll visit with the doctor on Monday.   Then my lower back was painful.   It was just one of those days.   Perhaps I need to take a couple days off.  We'll see.   I did have the top mileage for the month on the blog, but I've fallen to third place now.

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Well, after a bad training run yesterday morning, I got right back on the horse and headed back out at 3:00 a.m. again this morning.  I had a great run.  The ankle wasn't a problem. I think if I don't run for two days the ankle starts to tighten up.  I guess I will try to keep working it.   This morning, I went back up in the foothills to run up a hidden canyon that I couldn't seem to find yesterday but could see on Google Earth.  I also know I hiked up it about ten years ago.   Sure enough I found it.  I thought the ATV road going into it was just a spur off of another road to a smaller canyon to the south.  But this canyon is a much deeper canyon, about 0.6 mile until it ends.   The canyon does continue up steeper but it isn't runnable because of all the trees, brush, rocks...no trail.  But the road was a nice incline, great for hill training. 

So, I ended up running all over the place.   Up, down, up, down, loops, and short steep hill climbs.   I climbed about 2,000 total.   I kept my eye out at times for the metor shower, but only saw one shoot star.  The moon was very bright.   It was a great morning.  The sun is rising later.  I finished my run at about 6:00 a.m. and the dawn glow is bright enough to run without a light and relects off of Utah Lake....a beautiful sight.

 

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Out running again at 3 a.m.   Saw several meteors, part of the meteor shower.   I tried to find a new trail, a loop on the north-east corner of Lake Mountain.   After it made a 100-foot climb, I lost it in the grass.  I thought I was in the wrong place so didn't look hard.  But after checking Google Earth again, I understand now where it continued.   I'll try it again.   I ran around and through the Church farm.

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I did a very early morning run up Mount Timp, starting around 2:00 a.m.  This was my Timp Summit #61.  I ran with jun, my brother Bob, and my brother-in-law Ed.   Jun wrote up a very good summary of the adventure.  See his writeup.  I led the pack and when I got a little lazy, Ed noticed and would tell me to start working again.  Our splits were fairly good and typical for me for the first half of the climb, but instead of fading the second half, my buddies helped me keep the pace strong.  By the time we reached the basin, we had passed all the hikers who had started as early as midnight.

We made the summit in 1:57.   I pushed the last segment hard and reached the top a minute or two ahead of Ed and jun.  

From there, my legs felt super, so as I descended, and when I noticed Ed and jun couldn't keep up, I decided to just go for it.   My pace down was the fastest I have ever done, even in  the daylight.   My balance felt great, energy high, and no pain in the ankle.    I passed groups of hikers so fast that no words were even spoken between us as I flew by them.   As I approached each group, I would let out a whoop, then scream, "coming through!" and finally yell, "Please step aside."  As I blasted past, I would say "Thank you!"   This seemed to do the trick nicely.  They all cleared off the trail in time and just watched the crazy guy with the green light blast by in the dark.

In the basin I looked back up and saw that I was far ahead of jun and Ed, so I continued the blistering pace.  I reached the junction with the Emerald Lake trail at 2:21.  Holy Cow!  I was crushing my PR.   I reached a huge group of college kids who blinded me with their lights.  They confused me and I started running far off the trail.  "Where is the trail?"  I yelled out.  They all were helpful to point the way to me and I flew by them again.

My pace continued fast below the basin, down the rock slide but then I started to have problems.   The groups of hikers started to distract me.  Right after I passed one group, I took my eyes off the trail and down I went.  I knocked my head on a rock, bounced back up, felt my head, discovered it was still there, and continued on, just a little slower.   Within a half mile, I met another group who were not as fast to step aside.  As I approached, I looked up to make sure I didn't plow into them, but both my feet slid off of a wet slick rock.  Down I went again, very hard.  I hit both my forearms on rocks, the left started to swell a bump right away and the right felt worse.  I bounced up and ran by the group.  I slowed down another notch but still kept up a good fast past, just not crazy fast any more.

I worried about my right arm.  The hand started to get a little numb and extending my fingers caused pretty good pain.  I hoped I didn't bust it.   Oh well, nothing to do but get down, so why not try to still get down fast.  Finally I was through with the groups of hikers who started early and I knew there would usually be a large gap before more hikers who started closer to dawn.   I looked far up the mountain but there was no sign of jun or Ed.  I must have been nearly a mile ahead.

Well, my face plants weren't over.  This time I simply tripped on a big rock.   I scraped my legs and elbow, but bounced up again, this time walking for a couple dozen yards.  Boy, I was getting beat up today.  Not time to whine, I had a great time going and needed to push to the finish.

From Scout Falls to the bottom I again met tons of hikers.  I continued my pattern of warnings and they worked fine except for two guys who told me that I should run off the trail instead of them stepping aside.  Oh well.  My warnings I guess worked, because when jun came through all these hikers they all knew what to do for him.  Jun said one hiker said to him, "The guy with the green light is way ahead of you!"

My arm felt better toward the bottom so I stopped worrying and again pressed the pace hard for a good finish.   I finished in a new PR!   3:10:36.   My previous record was 3:35:50.  I crushed it.   I had run down from the summit in 1:13.  It made quite a difference having others along to push me.  I had a lot of gas left in the tank.  If I had not fallen, I think my time would have been 5-7 minutes faster.

I washed off my wounds and cooled my arm in the water, and then went to the car to inspect the damage to my arms.  They weren't that bad.   As I was resting, I saw jun's light.  He finished in about 3:18.   Ed, with less experience running down trails, arrived in about 3:39.  Both are outstanding times.   So we waited for Bob.  I thought he would finish around 4:20, but when he had not arrived by 4:30, I decided to go run up the trail to find him.  I hoped that he wasn't injured clear up at the top.  But within a half mile or so, I found him running hard down.   I joined in and he finished in 4:40.    Wow, it had been a wonderful morning.  We beat the storms and had perfect weather for the run.   I never needed to put on my gloves or jacket.

My splits were:

10-minute rock 0:09:00
Scout Falls 0:20:16
switchback corner 0:39:00
Emerald Lake Trail Jct 1:14:50
Saddle 1:39:04
Summit 1:57:48
Saddle  
Emerald Lake Trail Jct 2:21:55
switchback corner 2:42:18
Scout Falls 2:56:28
10-minute rock 3:04:20
trailhead 3:10:36

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