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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

Favorite Blogs:

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Total Distance
351.00
Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 66.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 46.00Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 203.00
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12.00

Treadmill.  Tried new Altra Repetitions.  So far, so good.

Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 7.00
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20.00

Treadmill and 8 miles on the JRP.  The bad knee cartiledge still sore toward the end.  But nice to be running pretty free just seven days after 161 mile-run.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 7.00Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 13.00
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5.00

Power walk with the dog

Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 5.00
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11.00

Lunchtime up City Creek

After work on the shore of Utah Lake.

Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 6.00
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19.00

Tough incline treadmill

Lunch up City Creek

p.m. trails around the development.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 7.00Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 6.00
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7.00

Run in the foothills above Midway

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 6.00
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35.00

Beautiful long run all the way around the mountain range above Midway.  Ran on the dirt trail along Deer Creek Res, near the railroad tracks, then cut up and followed Deer Creek all the way to Cascade Springs.  Then took the road to Pot Bottom (Wasatch Course), cut up to the ridge road to Wasatch Mountain Park, and down the road into Midway.  This involved about ten miles of running on packed snow.  Great fun.  Only saw two guys on an ATV up there, but the didn't go as I as I did.

Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 35.00
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21.00

Nice afternoon run from Elberta to Eureka and back.  I did this run several years ago.  It is a nice steady 2,000-foot climb to Eureka and enters canyons, running by old mines and you can select your route on various old railroad beds that are now just used by motorcycles.  Nice because they keep the weeds back and provide a nice track to run on.  So many different routes can be used through those canyons.  At Eureka I used the gas station as an aid station and then ran fast, 90 minutes 10-miles back ot my car.  Great training.

Nice to have done a 100-mile training week.  It has been a long time.  I'm getting more convidence in my leg that it has indeed healed. 

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 20.00
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7.00

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13.00

Got up at midnight and by 12:30 a.m. was running on a trail around a hill about a half mile above my home.  The trail around the hill is almost exactly 1 mile.  I first ran by moonlight but as the shadow covered the moon fully used my light.  On the section where the trailed headed in the direction of the moon, it was smooth enough that I could just look up into the sky and observe the changes with each lap. 

I knew plenty of people would come out of their houses to get a look so I was a little concerned about them seeing my light on the hill and calling the cops about an eclipse alien, so I tried to keep it pointed down.   I was never bothered.

It was a cool experience!  I ran 13 miles.

As the moon started to appear again, I called it a night and went back home.  I still got about six hours of sleep last night.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 13.00
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12.00

Treadmill.   Feeling the different of increased training.  Starting to get into shape again.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 11.00
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8.00

Run on the shoreline of Utah Lake.  Pretty funny that I found a new area to run less than three miles from my home in a big undeveloped area on Utah Lake that has some old wagon roads.  It will likely be overgrown later on, but right now a good area to run.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 8.00
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21.00

Treadmill and JRP

p.m.  Speed work.  Went and claimed four Strava course records near my home, fairly easy.  One, I had to push faster than 6:30 pace.  That one was owned by elite marathon runners who passed through the town a couple years ago.  I should be able to claim dozens nearby.  Local runners will get mad at the old man claiming all their records.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 21.00
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37.00

Early morning run.  Ran all the way around West Mountain, the mountain on the south end of Utah Lake.  It is mostly flat.  Ran the first half in moonlight.  All rural, very nice. 4 hours.

p.m. Hills and tempo runs, claiming ten Strava course records during a 10-mile run.  Got every one I attempted.  Not terribly fair because in this section of town, I'm probably the only one that can push the pace on hills.   But still, that's about 12,000 people.

Back to back 100-mile weeks.  Thats nice.  Ready for Salt Flats next week.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 35.00
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15.00

Early morning run out between Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain by the ridge. Snagged three more Strava CRs, these a little tougher because some newer ultra runners run out there.  But generally it was easy.  Starting to taper for Salt Flats, but want to keep the legs loose.

p.m. 5 miles out by the Church farm, two tempo runs.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 14.00
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Race: Salt Flats 100 (100 Miles) 24:15:00, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
101.00

This was my third year running Slat Flats 100.  This year, three elite runners who signed up didn't start.  I wondered it the door would be open for mear motals.  I took the lead from start across the Bonneville Speedway on the Salt Flats.  My first miles were 7:44, 7:58, 8:12, 8:13, and then I slowed from there.  About mile seven I started to be passed.  By mile 20, eight runners were ahead of me.  But at mile 23 is a three-mile hill that rises about 1,000 feet.  I charged up the hill, passing all eight runners and was the first to the top at the aid station there.   I kicked in gear down the other side, clocking 8:15, 8:26, and 9:01, stretching my lead to about a mile by the time I reached the next aid station at mile 31.5.  The people including friends cheered, but they looked shocked to see me leading. I aarrived so soon that the aid station had not been totally set up yet.  After the next big climb my lead was about two miles.  I was very pleased with my hill strength.  I started to wonder if I could indeed win this race.   But reality set in on the next section, a nasty 10-miles of mud flats where your feet sink in a little.  I just can't run it fast, so a few runners caught up and passed me.  I hoped that during the night I could again run all the hills and catch up.  But it started raining and by 10 p.m. it pretty much poured all night into the morning, non-stop.  I was foolish and brought the wrong clothes.  I thought I had a good rain coat, and put it on at mile 80 but learned that it wasn't water proof.  The next 10-mile section was brutal and I froze in the cold 40 degree rain.  When I finally reached the 90-mile aid station, I had no choice but the plead to be allowed to warm up in a car.  They were very nice and it took about an hour for me to stop shivering and dry out most of my clothes.  I never lost my placing, because I had at least an hour lead on the next runners.  When they arrived, I took off with new energy and stretched a two-mile lead by the time I reached the 95-mile aid station.  But again, I was soaked to the core and had to again sit in a car for 30 minutes.  I asked if they had a poncho and they did have one of those cheap emergency ones.  But it did the trick.  The last 5 miles were brutal, pouring rain and at times 40 mph wind blowing from the salt flats now covered in water, looking like a lake.  I finished in 5th place out of 54 starters.  I looks like about 30 runners DNFed and there was at least a couple serious incidents, a possible air lift and a lost runner during the storm.  So, pretty brutal.   The 50-mile race the next morning could not be run on the course now buried in water and totally muddy elsewhere.  So they just run out-and-back on pavement in the storm.

This was my 61st 100-mile finish and coldest I have been in one.

Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 101.00
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Total Distance
351.00
Altra Repetition Blue Miles: 66.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 46.00Altra Olympus Orange Miles: 203.00
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