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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 5 - Black Miles: 34.00Montrail Wildwoods - Red Miles: 13.00
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Treadmill 7x8:15x4%.   Nice to be in training mode again.  The left quad still a little sore, but is manegable.  Should be OK in a few days.  Noticed that Javalina Jundred is in mid-November this year.  That is very tempting, would be recovered from Pony Express and the later date would bring a better chance for cooler weather.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 7.00
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Tough hill workout on the TM.  7x8:30x10% (average)  Half of that I was at 15% incline.

I thought I had been gaining weight with my lazy last ten days, but surprise, I'm still at race weight.

Looking forward to getting outside again, but now another storm is coming.   Best wishes to those going to Moab Redhot on Saturday.  I decided to skip it this year.  Hopefully there is a lot less snow that last year.  That was crazy.  One of these years, I'll really try to race that one hard.  Each year it has always been a recreation run for me.

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Treadmill 8x7:30x3%

Knee complaining for some reason.  Quad almost healed.

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Easy treadmill, weights and core.  Noticed my right achilles is creaking.  Hadn't noticed that because it isn't sore.    Looks like Moab Redhot could have some interesting weather tomorrow, wind and storm toward the end.  Jealous, looks like fun.

As the sun was setting went out and did a run south of Lake Mountain.  Ran up the Soldier Pass road, very pleasant as the sun was setting, had a good pace going.  But down the other side, the roads were muddy and slower.  Down in Cedar Valley, I turned south on the Power Line road which was very slick and muddy.  At times I had to jump up on the desert floor to make better time, dodging the bushes.  I kept telling myself that I was building character.  But after 1.5 miles of slipping and slogging along with heavy shoes, I had had enough and turned east a mile early.  Once I made it to the top of the ridge, the trail was much better.  On the Utah valley side the soil isn't as much clay, more sandy.  Running down was fun again.  It became dark and then the full moon rose on the other side of the lake over Hobble Creek Canyon.  It was spectacular and huge, reflecting off Utah Lake.  What a sight!  I hadn't planned for that, but I was at the perfect location to view this.  Finishing up was discouraging, I felt slow and old and my left quad hurt and my right achilles too.  I had orginally hoped to do two loops, but one was enough.  This area just needs to thaw out to be more fun.   Drove to get some pizza and then went home.

Map of run: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/28472844

I guess it is going to take longer than usual to recover from this last 100, probably another two weeks this time.  Oh well, I'll just enjoy the rest.

Montrail Wildwoods - Red Miles: 13.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 6.00
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The tendon wasn't creaking this morning, so went and did 6 boring TM miles.  Afterwards it creaked bad.  Still have a lump on it from the high back heel from the Hokas.  With 450 miles on the shoe, I'll try cutting the back heel down for Buffalo Run.  I think I can get 100 more miles out of them.  But I need to heal this tendon, they heal really slow.  Good sign that it doesn't creak after a night's rest.

Well, now I understand why I have felt slow the last three days.  Low blood pressure for some reason (99/56).  Usually I'm on the high side, so this is different.  My brother has spells of low pressure too during exercise. I think I've had this before and it just goes away.   I noticed it when running on the treadmill hard, then stopping, and a short spell of almost fainting each time I would stop.  We have a blood pressure checker, so that confirmed.  I'll just take in more fluids, avoid dehydration.   If it doesn't get better, I'll run with a sign like my brother when he passes out on the trail.  "This is normal, just leave food."

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Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 34.00Montrail Wildwoods - Red Miles: 13.00
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