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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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Treadmill.  Noticing progress.  Did some long stretches at 6:30 pace.

Lunch run, roads and canal road in Riverton and Bluffdale

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Tough treadmill

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Treadmill...boring, but about the best training right now that can be done getting ready for ATY.

I get a kick out of watching the guys who come into the exercise room.  A stretch guy came in.   Spent more then ten minutes stretching out his legs, then did five minutes on the eliptical at its easiest level, more stretching, and five minutes jogging slowly on the treadmill.  Finally goes and does a few situps and then more stretching and just sitting around.  No sweating involved.  I don't get it, but at least he's doing something.

I never stretch, not before, not after, and almost always never cramp or pull muscles.  To me stretching is a complete waste of time.  If I have time to work out, I want to use it working out.   I get in the room, crank up the machine and away I go.

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Reached 3,000 miles for the year.  Looks like I'll probably hit at least 3,600 by the end of the year.

Graph: http://hphotos-iad1.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/310268_10150903324880694_754525693_21519247_1975432924_n.jpg

Every year a little more.  I remember in 2004, I thought those miles were huge.  If I add in the few miles I did in 2003 and 2002, I've run around 22,000 miles in the past ten years.

 

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Treadmill until it felt like I was going to go crazy.

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