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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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Did my 74th Timp Summit.  Labor day is typically the busiest day on the trail.   I got going a 1:30.  There were only a few groups going up Timpooneke because of the parking limitations but there was a steady train of lights coming from Aspen Grove.  Favorite comment today as I passed a group, a girl says, "You are running?"  I should have replied, "You are walking?"  As I approached a group in the basin, I could tell that they had set their sights on being the first to the top, they were moving pretty well and probably passed several groups.  Well, they finally stepped aside and looked at me.  I pushed it up a notch, ha, ha.   They did pretty well keeping me in their sights, but I reached the summit and descended to them before they made the final steep summit push.  They made some "amazing" comments and I told them "good job."   I reached the top in 2:20 which isn't bad for the dark.  There was a bright moon overhead.

Running through the basin, a little storm blew over with some soaking rain.  The group that started the same time I did was just below the basin taking shelter under some trees.  I took it easy the rest of the way and finished in 4:10. 

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Just power walking during lunch.  Concerning pain in the leg while walking this week.  Backing off the running and increasing the resting.  Not yet helping.  Oh well.  The pain doesn't seem to be bone pain.   We'll see what Wasatch pacing does to it.  I bet it disappears after ten miles or so.   But it has me spooked.

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56 miles running in the Wasatch mountains, 42 miles of it pacing Matt Van Horn.   Got him to the finish in 28:32.   Great fun.

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