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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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Recovery going very well.   Pain-free walking again and I pass the recovery test of jogging down stairs without much pain.  To me that is stunning that I have recovered so fast after doing a 100-miler with minimal training.  The slow pace of course was kind to the muscles.

Future plans:

I withdrew from North Coast 24-hour in three weeks, in Cleveland.  For timed-based runs I need to be in speed shape and be able to handle running on pavement.  It seemed like a waste to spend all the money going out there just to do a medium effort.  The RD kindly moved my registration to the spring race.

I registered for Bear 100, my 8th time there and hopefully my 7th finish.  I plan to race it medium effort....mid-pack, under 30 hours.  Four weeks away.

I'm considering Javalina Jundred, end of October.  And will likely sign up for Across the Years 24-hours, to revisit the race that caused all my problems this year.  Got to get back up on that horse.

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Treadmill and pavement.  As expected, the leg pain is back when I run, but no worse than two weeks ago.  So, I still have a long way to go, but at least I know I'm doing well.

After a big storm went through, the skies cleared, so I went up to run Timp before the next storm came in.   I started running around 8:45 p.m.   I had the trail pretty much to myself except for a couple guys with backpacks.  Once at the saddle, the wind was really bad, about 20 mph but it wasn't too cold.  I could see rain clouds and some lightning far to the west.  A few rain drops blown from far away hit me near the summit.   I didn't hang around, wanting to beat the strorms.   As I came down around midnight in the basin, I saw a few lights coming up from Aspen Grove.  I hoped they knew it was going to rain like crazy.   As I met other groups coming up, I cautioned them, that I had seen a big thunder storm that was probably and hour or two away.  Most groups seemed clueless and dressed poorly.   Oh well, they will learn.  As I got toward the bottom, I noticed that I missed a big soaking rain storm from Scout Falls down.   Nice.   I stayed dry.   Looks like all the groups missed the first storm at 2 a.m. but by 5 a.m. and again at 9 a.m. they got pounded bad I'm sure.

This was the first time I ever did a Timp run just 5 days after finishing a 100-mile race.  I felt very fine.  The legs seemed strong and the feet light on the trail.   The leg had pain the came and went and came back again.  Oh well.

 

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