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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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Posted my Antelope Island race report at: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=496#more-496

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Treadmill.  I did a 9x9x9.   Nine miles, 9:00 pace, 9% incline holding on to the front.  Actually did much of it at 8:00 pace to get it over with faster.  Got the usual comments from a firiend as I finished, "How many miles today? 50?"   He then tells a new guy about my 5 consecutive Timps.

p.m. six miles at the legacy center, 8:00 pace

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 15.00
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Woke up at 4:25 a.m., five minutes before the alarm went off, turned if off.  Next thing I knew it was almost 7:00.  Oh well.   After work ran some miles in the foothills of Bluffdale on dirt trails.  Good fun, but I wasn't dressed warm and was freezing.

La Sportiva Wildcat - Green Miles: 5.00
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Treadmill  9x8x10.  nine miles, 8:00 pace, 10% incline.

p.m. Run on trails in the Bluffdale-Riverton foothills

http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/ut/bluffdale/101129013203672939

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I wanted to get in a 50K run in this weekend.  Since there was a big storm coming in Saturday morning, I went to get it done Friday evening before the storm.  I selected a new route on the southwest side of Utah Lake.  I would start north of Mosida (north of the huge Bateman sheep farm) head on dirt roads to the west and make my way to a powerline road (the same powerlines that run through Cedar Valley to the north), and follow that all the way south to Elberta.   I then planned to loop around to the west and run along the old forgotton State Road 73, (now just a trail) and head back north.  I wanted to get through by midnight at average a 11:00 pace.

My actual run was a bit different.  I started at 6:15 p.m. in the dark. Things started off well, but about two miles into the run I took a wrong turn and then my road ended.  I backtracked made another turn, again wrong and really got turned around.   Eventually I found myself on a high ridge. I thought I was heading south, but I was heading east.  I was confused because I saw the lit up Bateman farm in the wrong location and soon saw that I was heading east with Utah Lake in front of me.   I backtracked again, and eventually found the correct road.  That cost me about two extra miles.  I looked at the sky.  No moon or stars to help, so I used the glow of the lights against the clouds from Salt Lake Valley far to the north.   I figured out that if I kept that glow behind my right shoulder, I would stay on course and not get turned around again.

Now on the right course, heading southeast, going over a mild pass, I hit a terrible headwind about 30 mph or so.  I was very startled by what looked like two porcupines running toward me.  They turned out to be tumble weeds.   The wind got fiercer and I had a hard time keeping my pace up.   Next I was very startled by tumble weeds coming from nowhere, slamming into me.   After awhile I just go used to it, no big deal.  Then little mice would run out on the road and try to keep ahead of me.  I almost stepped on a couple.  I reached the powerlines and my route shifted due south.   The headwind was now a little to the side of me and I was able to increase pace.   I now faced a long 9.2-mile straight route.   It seemed like it would never end.   

I came out behind some low hills and had great views of the lake and the lights across the lake including Santaquin  to the southeast.   Finally I hit Elberta Slant road and could really pick up my pace as I headed west on this smooth dirt road.   I was able to get back on my pace goal.   When I reached State Rd 68 (Redwood Road), I stopped to refuel.  Before my run I had dropped some coke, water, and Ensure.   I was dehydrated because I was running with only one water bottle and had run out a few miles back.  It was good to get hydrated again.

I looked at my distance.  Because of my blunder, I was already at 17 miles.   I decided to take the easy route and run SR 68 back directly to my car.   On the pavement I was able to really push the pace well.  After a couple miles, to avoid the occasional car going by, I jumped onto a ranch dirt road that parallels the highway for about ten miles.  That turned out to be great.  My pace slowed a little back on the dirt, but I enjoyed it much more.  With the full moon out, I was able to run without my light, totally by moonlight.  It was fantastic.

At times the wind was fierce, but now I had an incredible tail wind.   It would really push me along!  I looked out toward the east and saw huge dust clouds glowing in the moonlight, out a couple miles where the powerline trail would was.  I was glad that I was not there, it would have been nasty.

Finally I could see the blazing lights of Bateman farm to the north, but it seemed like it would never arrive on the long straight 12-mile stretch.   Again, I started to get dehydrated, so my joints started to ache.   I was ready to finish.  Soon the car came into view and I completed my Mosida/Elberta loop, almost exactly at 11:00 pace, a little before midnight.   Once in the car, the windstorm really kicked up and my car rocked back and forth, and tumbleweeds were really flying.  I was glad to be through.

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Treadmill, easy pace.   Noticed that I've surpassed the number of miles I ran  last year.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 8.00
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Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 39.00La Sportiva Wildcat - Green Miles: 5.00Montrail Wildwood Miles: 30.00
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