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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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More of the same.  Pain about as bad as ever or worse.  Still can hardly walk.  Main problem is bursitis, two bursae are badly irritated, the worst right now is the infrapatellar bursa.  Boy, it really is painful, about an inch below the knee cap on the inner side.  It sites near a ligament and the patella tendon.  The tendon isn't sore, thank goodness.  But I can just tap on the area of the bursa and it creates big-time pain.

I'm sure other problems are joint pain, but they are so much lower than this bursitis.  I need a shot there, but the office is closed for the holiday, so no news or help.  Putting an ice pack on that area numbs things up for a little while.  Laying on the back with the leg up also makes the pain go away.

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Well, believe it or not, the MRI came back fine.  Great news!  My ortho mostly laughed as he listened and talked to me about what I do.  After he discovered that I have run 23,000 miles since he fixed up my knee in 2003, he bragged to his receptionists.  I asked him specifically if I've damaged the knee at all from my running.  He said the MRI just shows what he did with the surgery, no new problems.   So what have I done?  "Overuse."  He couldn't rule out a stress fracture, but didn't seem very concerned about doing anything more to find it.  He did say that he should have ordered a brain exam.

He prescribed a steriod to be taken this week which should bring down all the swelling and solve the bursitus.   As we walked down the hall to the front desk, he yelled out and pointed to me limping, "I didn't do this to him!  He did it to himself."   He got me crutches for the next few days.   Hopefully I'll start mending now.

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Some progress. Mornings are always the worst for some reason.  At least with the crutches I didn't have to endure the severe pain walking into the office from the parking lot.  Yesterday it was bad enough that the tear ducts started to flow.

Looks like the steriod is helping some of the problems.  I really don't feel much joint pain anymore which is pretty normal after a 100 within 2-3 weeks.   The main thing remaining is the worst problem going into RR100 and coming out of it:   The pes anserine area. below the knee.  This is where the MCL attaches and three other muscles including the semitendinosis hamstring muscle who's tendon had been sore.  The shin muscle on the other side of the leg also pulls somewhat on that area and that muscle is still tight and sore at times.

The pes anserine area is still swollen bad and when I walk feels like a knife digging in.  Crutches will help avoid that because that pain is only when it bears weight.  Its like a very high shin split.  I think the possibilities are: 1. Just continued pressure on that area.  2. a tear in that area.   3. a stress fracture in that area.   Either way from what I read it will likely be 6-7 weeks.   If things don't improve significantly in two weeks, I'll be back at the doctor and he'll help further....he told me to come back if it doesn't improve.

Improvements seen (I list these for my benefit so I won't doubt that I'm getting better.)

1. No longer much pain on the medial side (inside) of the knee when I rotate the leg in.  The MCL or semitendinosis would sting before and start aching very badly.

2. Much less pain when I try to push aside something with the inside of the foot.

3. Much less pain in the infrapetellar region.  Still pain when I tap there, but much less than the last couple days.

4. Lower leg muscles better, probably from not limping.

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More of the same, no real improvement seen.  Yesterday after work was very bad, crippling pain.  But elevation, ice, and Advil calmed everything down quickly for the evening.  No pain when sleeping. Then mornings it all starts over again.  Bad in the mornings, elevation and ice doesn't help much.  Not nearly as bad this morning as yesterday.

Seeing some reaction to the prednisone, not bad, but noticed.  I don't know if it has really helped much yet.

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Really bad morning.  Seems like the Tibialis anterior muscle, the shin muscle on the other side of the shin is causing grief.  When it seems to be swolen and sore, everything hurts a ton more.   That muscle strained a little during the first 20 of RR100 and swelled up during the race.  It could be that everything is just swolen more this morning....didn't take Advil, tired of taking drugs.  Tried to walk in from the parking lot without crutches, sick of those things.  Bad decision...could barely move as I approached my office.   Really no improvement this week, so I suspect I'll be back at the ortho next week.  19 days of very slow recovery.  I think there are some good corners downtown where I could bring my crutch, find a tin cup, and get seomething good out of this.

p.m. much better.   However, the drugs caused or triggered what I think is a kidney stone.  When it rains it pours.   Great fun.

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Improvement today.  Not sure what helped, compression over night, deep massage, or short workout on the elipitcal and bike.  I suspect the workout helped tighten up the knee getting some pressure off the problem areas.

It is strange that after three weeks, I still have swelling that rotates around. It went down into my lower leg this morning. It really makes me think there is a bad tear or stress fracture somewhere.  That is a long time for swelling to remain.

Best, is no kidney pain for past 12 hours.  Friday morning it was so bad I almost threw up.  Great stuff.  Builds character.

Added up the meager miles this week, about four.  Some on my extended trekking poles (actually crutches).   Gotta have some miles on the board!

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