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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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18 degrees out this morning.  That just a wee bit nippy.   I hit the treadmill.  This morning, I ran with the lights out for an hour in the Saratoga Springs rec center until the next person arrived.  The treadmills face the windows that look out across Utah Lake.  With the lights out, it was a very pleasant light show looking out at all the lights across the lake in Provo, Orem, Lindon, etc.

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8 x 8:00 miles on the Legacy Center track.

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Caught a cold.   Usually working out helps me feel better.  Did 10 miles on a treadmill and felt much better.

With two weeks to go before the Across The Years 24-hour race, it is really time for me to start tapering  (backing off my training).   I hate tapering because little aches and pains appear and I start gaining weight if I don't diet.

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Nine more treadmill miles.

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Short tune-up treadmill run at 8:30 miles.   Entering taper mode for my next big race on Dec 30.

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6 easy miles on the treadmill.   Interesting to see that my motivation for hard training is low now.  But that is great, it is time to taper.   So, I'm just going to keep doing little tuneup runs when I want to and try to rest up for 110 miles on the 30th.

I passed 3,000 miles for the year.  I didn't really have that as a goal, I planned to do 2,500, but with this next race coming up, it kept me motivated in November and December.

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