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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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No training on Sundays

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Hit the trail at 3:50 a.m.   34 degrees, very little breeze.  Sluggish, so took it very easy and took a tougher route than usual and climbed up on the ridge by the Ranches, overlooking northern Utah County.  The lights are always incredible.  Without much of a breeze this morning, it was pleasant up there.

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Ran ten miles at the Lehi Legacy Center track, 8-minute miles.

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No morning run.  Felt like I should rest.   In order to avoid over-use injuries, I listen to my body and make sure I give it rest, when it wants.   I would rather skip training than get injured and relaly skip training for a long time.  

4 mile power walk during lunch - went up around the Utah Capital Building.

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5 miles on the Lehi Legacy Center Track.   1- 6:33, 2- 6:26, 3- 7:22, 4: 7:10.   My 5K split was 20:48.   Funny how a year ago my PR was slower than that.  Now, I can do a fairly easy training tempo run in under 21.   Not bad for an old foggie with one foot in the grave.   Saw an elderly man walking around the track with a cane. I thought, "gee, that's me in ten years."  Also saw a woman walking around the track constantly texting on her phone.  Made me laugh.   I bet she does that all day.   My 12-year-old son asked for a cell phone yesterday.  No way.

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It was 22 degrees this morning.  I wasn't pyched up for a cold 2-hour run, so I hit the treadmill for 15 miles in under two hours. Power walk during lunch hour, 4 miles up around te Utah Capital.

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Six easy miles at the Legacy Center

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Zero day.   Recover from a little nagging injury from a few weeks ago.

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Another rest day.  Feeling great.  Hope for a long run Saturday if the storm coming in doesn't scare me away.

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Started off the morning with 15 easy miles on the treadmill.   Next, I decided to run on the Jordan River Parkway trail to Willow Park where my son was camping with the scouts.  I arrived there just in time for breakfast!   Great timing.   A big winter storm was coming in. I started my run in 47 degrees, but by the time I finished it was 30 degrees and snowing.  A full moon was out, and incredible, partially covered by dust blowing from the west desert.  At leasst I missed any rain.   I continued north to Thanksgiving Point and then turned around.  The wind had started out from the southwest and shifted violently from the north, blowing about 20 mph.   My timing for turning around south was great.  With the wind, I had a wonderful tail wind the rest of the way home.   When I returned to Willow Park, the scouts had already packed up and headed home, beating the storm front.   I was a nice run.

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Miles with the dog in the snow.

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