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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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Still sore and tired.  I think it was pretty good that I was back to work just 18 hours after finishing and made it through the entire day.  Thoughts turning to Wasatch 100 in 10 days.  I think the CCC100 was a great training run with all its climbs.  I didn't push it very hard because of the heat, and I came away without any injuries, so should be all set.

Pondering about shoes.  The Hokas a great for the flats and rocky downhills.  They suffer on the climbs and trails that slope to the left or right.  The toe blisters (sides of the big toes) are discouraging, nothing seems to help avoid them.   But sure love finishing a 100 without sore feet.   I'm tempted to run the first 40 of Wasatch in other shoes because of the big initial climb and the uneven trails through the brush, and then switch to Hokas for the rocky trails after Big Mountain.

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Wed, Aug 31, 2011
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Been three days since finishing.  Finally feel human again today after 10 hours of sleep last night.  Calves still sore from all the climbs.  Appetite finally coming back and the adversion to sunlight is gone.

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Feeling pretty recovered today, just about ready to run again.  The cool autumn weather is so wonderful to see.  Makes me want to go up into the Uintas.  Long range forecast for Wasatch 100 looks great, cool like today.

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Fri, Sep 02, 2011
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Sat, Sep 03, 2011
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Did a recovery run, running up Timp, my 66th career summet.  The parking lot was almost totally full at 2:30 a.m.  Ran up, passing about 100 kids.   I took it easy, but was very pleased that I felt strong and fast, could run hard uphill for long stretches if I wanted and it seemed easy.  Got up in 2:20.  It was a bit chilly with some frost in the basin, but got warmer further up.  Some kids were heading down as I went up, I think they hit the first snow field, (no big deal) and turned around.

I think BYU kids are getting dumber...need to get out more.  I was asked silly questions as I ran down.   One guy, "Are you going down?"  How do I answer that one?  A girl always asks, very concerned:  "Why are your running?"  Guys moving slowly in the basin, "How much further is it?"  (They can look up and see the summit).   Then there are the kids that see me coming with my light blazing and act like a deer in the headlights, no clue what to do.  They just freeze in the middle of the trail.

I counted 375 people on the trail.  This is the second busiest day on the trail.  I was tempted to do a double, but no way with that traffic.  It will even be worse on Monday, the biggest day of the year.

I ran into about seven people who either I knew or they knew who I was.  So I had fun stopping to talk to a bunch of people.  The dawn light was incredible as I neared the bottom.  It was a nice morning.  Got home before my wife and son woke up.

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