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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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I'm still cautious and concerned.  Unsure if my workouts are helping or hurting.  Since I still see good week-to-week improvement, I believe they help.  I have crazy fears that as I run the leg will just bust in half.

I ran treadmill, 10 miles at 10:00-8:00 pace, all at 10%.   By far the toughest treadmill run post-injury.  All felt good afterwords.   Pains just rotate around the leg to different spots.  Wish they would go away, but I suspect they will be there for many more weeks.

I'm still planning on "running" Cascade Crest 100 in 11 days.  But my attitude is that it will just be a supported adventure run of undetermined length.  I won't race.  I won't care if I DNF.  I will just enjoy the Pacific Northwest trails, where I grew up.

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More tough treadmill

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Ran the steep last three miles up Butterfield canyon to the pass and continued up for awhile on the road up to West mountain.   Nice hill training.

Things going OK.  My other knee is a problem.  The knee cap is bruised underneath, not tracking well, especially on downhills and is pretty sore.   That is a chronic problem for me at times.  Need to tighten up the quads and might need to tape up the knee cap a little if it really is painful.

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More tough treadmill, a little sluggish today.

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Tough treadmill and running to and from rec center. 

One lady who is there every day puzzles me.   She is really skinny, 100 pounds and she does a tough 90 minute mostly cardio workout every day but doesn't seem to be training for anything, no running, but pounds the eliptical and does high incline power walks.  I was pretty impressed until I noticed that she weighs herself before and after each workout....probably obsessed with gaining weight.

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Went up Timp early in the morning. With the trailhead parking lot closed, I just parked where the Great Western Trail crossed the Apline Loop, and then had an enjoyable, easy 0.8 mile to the trailhead. Others were doing creative parking on the road.

I set off at 2:40 a.m. There were still plenty of kids on the trail. My uphill strength was much better, but I still held back to keep the leg pain down.

Above Scout Falls there was a large groups stopped in the trail that just wouldn't move aside untill I asked them to please step aside. A guy grabs me and points to a moose about 20 feet off the trail. I just saw, "nice" and run on ahead as the college kids were still in panic. I startled the moose and it moved away. Others ahead of me also mentioned the moose when I passed.

I pushed it pretty well and reached the summit in about 2:20. There were many groups that I passed on the last stretch to the summit. In the summit hut were a bunch of kids shivering with emergency blankets on. I let them know that they were sitting in the coldest place on the mountain and if they just sat 20 feet down on the east side, it would be warm. Then I just turned around and started running down.

First I guy almost at the top saw me running and asked, "Are you OK?" What a strange question. I guess I thought I must be in distress because I was in such a hurry to get down. I replied, "I'm great, how are you?" Then a little further down, a guy asks, "Why are you going down?" I'm sure wondering why I was going down before sunrise. I replied, "Because it is time to go home." As usual, in the basin I met the groups that I passed near the start. They are always amazed and ask, "Did you make it to the top?" My answer is, "Yes, that is the only place to go."

Thankfully there were not as many hikers on the trail because of the closed parking lot, but there were still plenty of groups that I had to get around. I reached the trailhead in 3:59. Not bad. It feels like my fitness level right now would have allowed me to go about 3:30, but I still have to slow down at times as the leg pain goes up.

I probably pushed it a little to hard this morning. But I will taper now and just rest, letting the leg further heal up. I doubt very much that I will go very far at CCC100 next Saturday, but I'll still go to have some fun and visit old friends from my highschool years.

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