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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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Total Distance
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La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (old) Miles: 14.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 16.00Montrail Wildwood Miles: 17.00
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Recovery going very well, can already jog downstairs (with some quad pain).  No calf pain.  I think it is funny that I will recover faster this week from running a 100K race, than recovering last week from a half marathon.

Looking back on the 100K, I feel pretty good about it.  With a perfect race, I think I could have run about 45 minutes faster on that course.  That gives me something to shoot for next year.

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Back to training.  Focus on the flats, many miles and very long runs to get ready for ATY in less than 50 days.  Treadmill this morning.  Planning and starting up two-a-days.

Feel recovered from Saturday, just minor pain in the blister spots that aren't totally healed.

p.m. tempo run at the Lehi Legacy center indoor track.   Averaged about 7:40 pace.

La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (old) Miles: 14.00
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I went out for a night run in Cedar Valley.  I started at Camp Floyd in Fairfield and ran a 25K loop that circled around the Jake Garn airport, went to Eagle mountain and then returned.  This would make a good route for a 50K race some day because it almost exactly 25K, very fast and flat and would bring people out to Camp Floyd.   People might think it is boring because it is so wide open and flat, but I get a kick out of running in that wide-open valley because it messes with your mind, the long straight sections seem to never end.

Map of the run: http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/ut/fairfield/167128966569676934

I intended to run the loop twice, but wimped out after one loop because of the cold.  That massive valley is amazing.  All the cold air sinks at the lowest point.  My run only gained 95 feet along the way, but at the lowest point it was 20 degrees and at the highest point it was 31 degrees.  Amazing!   My coldest point was about three miles west of Camp Floyd.  After I finished the second loop, I just didn't want to go through that cold stretch again with a slight head wind.   Also my right foot was tender from the new skin healing the massive blisters from the last couple weeks.   At midnight I stopped and went home.

At mile 7 I had dropped a thermos of warm diluted Ensure to drink.  Yum, Yum.  At mile 10 I ran on what I now call, "Lost Scott Road."   Read the reason documented in this story.

I completed the 25K in 2:20 with an average pace of 9:10.  My fastest mile was the downhill mile (ha, ha, 20 feet downhill during the entire mile) for a 7:34 pace. Got to love those tough downhills, I really blasted down it.

I'm running these flat runs to get ready for ATY (Across the Years 48-hour run on Dec 29 in Arizona).   I might go back out there Saturday to run another longer loop to the south, once it warm up a little.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 16.00
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Went out and finished the 50K I interrupted at midnight.   Started again at Camp Floyd in Fairfiled and did a longer loop to the south.  At one point far south I couldn't see any modern structures for miles, a very cool remote feeling.   It wasn't as cold as last night, temp about 40.

Montrail Wildwood Miles: 17.00
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Total Distance
47.00
La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (old) Miles: 14.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 16.00Montrail Wildwood Miles: 17.00
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