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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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Amazed at how beat up I felt from that half marathon.  I must be getting old.  Sore calves and I slept over 10 hours last night.  Weird.   Looking at the results, a big field, 73rd overall out of 2443, top 3%.  In my age group, I was 5th, but the top 5 all finished within 2:26 of each other, then there was a gap of 5:30 until the next runner.  I believe I'm closing the gap with those who usually beat me.  If I really cared, I could really train for speed and road foot speed.  But, I don't, so it is back to the trails I go.

FYI, when I consider overall results, I always include women who beat me in those results,  To me, I'm racing against them too.  Good for them.  11 beat me.   In 100-milers and 50-milers, I'm finally getting to the point where only about 2-3 beat me.

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Sore calves but feeling better. Too many people asked me today if I did a huge run over the weekend because they can see that I'm walking weird.  Pretty funny to tell them that I only did a half marathon.

New month, still on track for my highest mile year.  December will likely be a 400-mile month with Across the Years race.

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Calves getting better but still sore on the downhills and down stairs.  I signed up for the Antelope Island 100K.  Just two days away, hopefully the soreness will be gone.  The danger of doing a very long run with tight calves is shin splints.  I've had that happen before, really bad resulting in internal bleeding/bruising.  Pretty nasty, takes a good month or more to heal.

Spent a half hour blasting the calves with water jets in the hot tub.  That always seems to give them a great deep massage and turn them to mush.  Also swam some laps.  Its been months since I've swam.  Boy, you really lose it if you don't do it often.

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Heating pad treatment on the calves overnight.  Seemed to help.  I'll still have some soreness tomorrow.  It could loosen up and not be a problem or could seize up.  If this were a 100-miler, I doubt if I would start.   But this is just a fun 100K.  It would be nice to set a PR at this distance.   The only other 100K I've run is KM100 which is a crazy slow 100K.  At ATY 2007, I reached 100K distance at just under 12 hours.  At Pony Express this year, I would have been close to that mark, but I sat in the car for a rest right before the 100K mark.  So beating 12 hours would be nice.

I'm heading out to the island this afternoon to help Jim set up.

Predictions.   I think two runners from Colorado are the favories, Zach Hermsen and Tim Long.  Zach ran a sub-24 at Leadville this year. Tim ran Bear in 23 hours. I don't believe I can keep up with them.   There are also two swift guys from Wyoming who have run sub-8 50s, Christopher Dingman and Chris Lundberg, but they haven't race over 50 before.  Can they keep up the speed past 50?  Probably.  Then there are about nine others that are about my speed if my legs will work.

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Race: Antelope Island 100K (62 Miles) 11:58:00, Place overall: 12, Place in age division: 2
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Full race report posted here.

My goal was to break 12 hours.   I cut it a wee bit close and really had to push the last ten miles or so.

It was a spectacular, perfect running day on the island.  This new course runs for several miles along the western beach and during loop 2 there was a cool breeze coming off the Great Salt Lake.  It really felt like an ocean breeze, full of salt.  Really neat.

My race went pretty well.  The field was pretty competitive, some speedy runners entered the last couple days.   My sore calves were not a problem, after a couple miles they felt fine.  In fact I was the overall leader as late as mile 12.  It was fun to run with the front-runners, even when we all went off course and went through a muddy march.  We ended up all going in seperate directions to get out of it.  When we finally run back out on the lake bed, Phil Lowry saw us come out with our lights and said we looked like Picket's charge at Gettysburg, all coming down on the lake at different points.  Really funny.

I backed off my pace as usual, sticking with Phil until about mile 20 and then started to struggle with a bad blister, left over from that stupid half marathon last Saturday.  It really slowed me down for the next 20 miles until I stopped, cleaned things out and removed tape that wasn't working. 

I finished the first 50K at 5:15 and reached the 50-mile mark at 9:27.   Around mile 48, I felt fantastic and turned on the jets.  At that point I knew reaching my sub-12 hour goal was in major jeapordy.  But I concentrated very hard and used my Garmin to keep my pace up.  Crossed the finish line at 12:58 to really nice cheers.  Brian Beckstead and others hung around until I finished.  That was nice.  This was a 100K race PR for me, mostly because there are so few 100Ks to run.   I really loved the fast course with the varied trails and the four tough long, but runnable, climbs. I came up two minutes short of my 100K distance PR during a longer race.   At 2008 ATY I reached 100K at 11:54 on a totally flat track..   By my Garmin today I reached 100K at 11:56, the course being a tiny bit long. (my off course adventure and a big detour around some buffalo added a little).

Looking at the Garmin data, my fastest mile was a 7:42 at mile 9 when I took the lead blasting down some switchbacks. Slowest was a 21:00 mile during the 1,000-foot two-mile climb on Loop 2.  During Loop 1, it was a 17:05 mile at this same point.  Looks like we only lost about 3 minutes going off course.  Mile 62 was a 9:24 mile as I "sprinted" to get under 12 hours.

Looks like I only walked about 3.5 miles of the entire 62 miles.

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