Old Man Still running

Bear 100 Endurance RUn

Previous WeekRecent EntriesHomeJoin Fast Running Blog Community!PredictorHealthy RecipesCrockett's RacesFind BlogsMileage BoardTop Ten Excuses for Missing a RunTop Ten Training MistakesDiscussion ForumRace Reports Send A Private MessageMonth ViewYear View
Graph View
Next Week
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2008200920102011201220132014201520162017
15% off for Fast Running Blog members at St. George Running Center!

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

Favorite Blogs:

Click to donate
to Ukraine's Armed Forces
Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Total Distance
119.00
Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 17.00La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (new) Miles: 102.00
Total Distance
9.00

Ran to and from the Club House and then seven miles on the treadmill.  Almost got hit by a car on the way.  A woman delivering papers had her dome light on, she cut a corner I was running on, didn't see me and I almost had to jump for my life.  I think that woke her up.  She just can't be driving like crazy on our roads, even if it is 5 a.m.

Last week was recovery, this week taper for the Bear 100 on Friday.  Pretty funny.

My training strategy is to get my foot speed back up, thus the dreaded TM.  Funny how I just don't feel comfortable at all running sub 7-minute pace anymore.  It will take awhile to get that back.  However, after running seven miles, I felt warmed up and more comfortable at faster paces.  Looking toward Pony Express Trail 100 in a month when I will need the foot speed.  The dream is for a sub-20-hour 100. 

I'll probably keep this up during my taper this week.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 9.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
8.00

Same routine, ran to the club house, newspaper lady saw me today and didn't run me down, get to the club house, enter at 5:08 (opens at 5:00), the alarm goes off, cops come, same routine as yesterday.   The cops are getting tired of coming over for nothing. 

Ran treadmill to get foot speed, alarm keeps going off with each person entering the building.  Fun stuff.

Looks like I'll have the highest mileage week on the blog for the third time this month.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 8.00
Comments(7)
Race: Bear 100 Endurance RUn (100 Miles) 26:30:15, Place overall: 27, Place in age division: 3
Total Distance
102.00

The quick version, full version later.

This was my 7th time running Bear 100 that goes from Logan, Utah to Bear Lake in Idaho.  It doesn't go direct.  The course zigzags and does massive climbs along the way of over 20,000 feet total.

Started fast as usual, running with the top 10 and stayed ahead of Jon for the first climb as he was obviously carefully holding back.  Settled in to my schedule for 26-hour finish goal. Funny how I can stay close to it. At Paul's aid station, I was 20 seconds ahead of my schedule.  Last year I was right at my predicted schedule at his aid station. Right before that I took a face plant.  Usually my face plants involve skinned knees.  But this time it was a true face plant, the face planted in the dirt, scraping up my forehead.

The day went well.  I felt no ill effects of running Wasatch 100 two weeks ago.  In fact my hill climbing felt stronger than ever.  I could run the hills clear to the end of the race.  Things went well until the early evening around mile 62.  I had some serious issues that slowed me down.  The most serious happened at mile 68.  Somehow I injured my foot, my problem tendon.  I thought I would have to DNF, but I tested in our for 7 more miles and it calmed down.  Looks like I may have just badly bruised the foot, it is all black and blue.  We'll see in a couple days went things calm down.  Hopefully I didn't tear the tendon causing it to bleed. 

At mile 70, I felt incredible as my stomach finally calmed down and I had the right number of calories in my system.  For last 30 miles I passed many runners and loved running up the hills, felt very strong.

I did take four wrong turns!  Pretty funning became I've run the current course two times before.  But at night when running fast, it was tough to see the course markings which were few.  I ended running an extra 1.5 miles.  So, without those blunders, I probably would have reached my 26-hour finish goal.  I finished in 26:30, nearly two hours faster than my best time last year.  I was very pleased.  Out of the 170 starters, I finished in 27th.

Big thanks to Brad and Geri Clements who crewed me during the night.  They have it down to a science.  Brad would run out to greet me to see what I needed and then run to the station before I got there.  They had a chair and table all set up for me each time.  Geri had her handheld on a big timer so I could see how long I was at the station. She would call out the minutes.  My visits were nice and fast.

  miles 2010 goal 2008 2009 2010
Start 0 0:00      
Logan Peak 10.5 2:30 2:42 2:33 2:23
Leatham Hollow 19.7 4:00 4:20 4:10 4:00
Richards Hollow 22.5 4:35 4:58 4:44 4:34
Cowley Canyon 30 6:20 7:15 6:38 6:24
Right Hand Fork 36.9 7:50 9:01 8:06 7:52
Temple Fork 45.2 9:45 11:12 10:09 9:48
Tony Grove 51.8 12:00 13:18 12:17 12:04
Franklin TH 61.5 14:30 16:30 14:51 14:37
Logan River 69.5 16:50 19:42   17:09
Beaver Lodge 75.8 19:00 22:17 20:15 19:27
Gibson Basin 81.2 20:45 24:52:00 22:15 21:10:00
Beaver CG 85.3 21:50 25:52:00 23:28 22:10:00
Ranger Dip 92.2 24:10:00 28:21:00 25:57:00 24:23:00
Finish 100 26:00:00 30:51:00 28:21:00 26:30:15

 Here's what place I was in coming into the various stations:

 
Logan Peak  18
Leatham 30
Richards 29
Cowley 31
Right Fork 30
Temple 32
Tony Grove 33
Franklin 33
Logan River 36
Beaver Lodge 32
Gibson 31
Beaver Creek 28
Ranger Dip 27
Finish 27

La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (new) Miles: 102.00
Comments(12)
Total Distance
119.00
Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 17.00La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (new) Miles: 102.00
Debt Reduction Calculator
Featured Announcements
Recent Comments: