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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 and lunch run.   For lunch I have been running a one-mile lap around a park, trying to get myself mentally ready for Across the Years.

I'm plotting an adventure run to do soon, something that no one has done before.  Once I do it, I'm sure many others will try. 

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Treadmill 

Here's the crazy adventure run plans for tomorrow.   End to end Jordan River Parkway run from Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake.   End-to-End JRP is about 48 miles.  If I continue clear to Great Salt Lake (Farmington Bay), I'll add another 9 miles on Legacy Parkway trail and roads/dikes to the Bay, for about 57, then 3 back to the Trailhead to get picked up.  Lots of downhill, Great Salt Lake is 300 feet lower than Utah Lake.  I suspect I would be the first person to do this in a day.

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/151760909/

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Perfect day running.  Decided to take off work and do a long run today instead of Saturday when it will be bad weather.  I ran which I think is the first end-to-end Jordan River Parkway run, starting at mile 0 at Saratoga Springs and sticking with the JRP all the way to Legacy Parkway, 47+ miles.  Then I ran up Legacy Parkway 6 miles, and then more miles in the Farmington Bay Waterfowl management area, very cool, probably ran about ten in there.   My wife drove up and picked me up just as the sun went down.   My end-to-end JRP took 9:29.  Pretty easy pace, taking pictures, checking routes, searching for water sources and eating breakfast and lunch.

I'll write this up on my blog with pictures and video.   Legs felt fine.  At 50 miles I was really feeling great.   Did end out with some blisters, so I'll have to let those heal.

 

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Restless sleep last night, very sore hip flexors.  But when I woke up in the morning seems like all the muscle pain went away.  Wow.  I'll be good to run again tomorrow.  I wrote up my crazy run at:  http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=1046

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8 miles of boredom on the treadmill, then went outside and ran on the JRP.  Kept running into people I knew and enjoyed some short back and forths with them.  Ran into the big fast group of Dan, Scott, Matt and others, some of the best runners in the entire valley.  Then ran into neighbors.   It was a beautiful crisp morning, perfect.  I love it after a snow storm.  Geese hunters were out in force.

Looks like I'm at the top of the mileage board for the month.  Let's see if I can stay there.  It has been a very long time since I could do that.

p.m. ran south of home to Lake Mountain development and back.  Funny how our yard has no snow in it but just four miles down the lake they have six inches.

Good week, big miles.  Feel faster and stronger.

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