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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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Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - White Miles: 18.00Bondi Orange Miles: 65.00
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Worked out the kinks on the treadmill.  Working on foot speed.  Planning my next long crazy training run, probably on Friday.  Here is a map of the likely run.  Can anyone guess where it is?

 

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Easy treadmill to stay loose.

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Did another crazy Black Friday run.  Usually I go to the Grand Canyon, but I don't think my leg is ready to pound those extreme downhills.

So, I attempted to run around the San Pitch mountain range, about 97 miles.  Started at Levan, about 12 miles south of Nephi, at 1 a.m.   Ran the 30 miles south to Gunnison in the dark, timing it to make sure the food mart was open.   From mile 20-25, it was terribly cold in patches, into the teens.  It was a terrible mental exercise to hang in there and not turn around.  Great anti-DNF training.   I seriously almost turned back three times.  My water bottles with diluted Ensure turned to ice cream.  It tasted great but only made me colder.  Finally as the road rose higher off the desert floor the temps went into the mid to upper 20s and I felt much better.   I had new life at dawn.

Ran around the south end of the range and made then started run north through Sanpete Valley, reaching Manti and Ephraim. 

I gave up the adventure at mile 65, at Moroni for two reasons.  1. My knee stiffened up pretty badly.  2. The road from Ephraim to Nephi has an unsafe narrow shoulder and cars fly by at 70 mph.   I was on pins and needles for the ten miles I did on it.  There is no way I was going to run on the during rush hour or in the evening.  Can't do it.  Reroute alternatives on the north end are few and add a bunch of miles.

I did have a great run up Sanpete Valley with perfect cool running weather.  It was a great day.

I think the knee will be fine.  It is not in the area that got carved up in '03.  It appears to be muscle related, quad insertion areas are swollen, but not very sore.  We'll see tomorrow when things calm down.

Feet and leg muscles came out great.    I'll work up another video.  Took a bunch of pictures along the way.

Accomplished my third 100k+ training run in three consecutive weeks.  It feels like a good distance to push the legs towards big time race distance.



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Knee better today.  Seems like it will be fine in a few days.

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