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Virgil Crest 100

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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 - Green Miles: 4.00La Sportiva Wildcat Red Miles: 3.00Hoka - Stinson Miles: 101.00
Total Distance
6.00

Getting focused on running Virgil Crest 100, in New York, on Saturday.  Over the weekend studied the course and read race reports from last year.  The course reminds me of the Tahoe Rim 100 format, just lower altitude and cooler/moister conditions.   It really looks like my kind of race and conditions, most of it windy single track in the forest.

The more I think about it, this is crazy running three 100s in four weeks.   But I feel recovered and ready.  The stupid elblow swelled up again this weekend and got hot, but doesn't hurt much.  So, I on the stupid antibiotics, but refuse to take the steroid.  Spooks me to think what a body under 100-mile stress would react after taking that stuff.  Not willing to risk.

Last night I called a family I found, taught, and baptized into the Church on my LDS mission in 1978.   They live 20 minutes from the start.   I'll stay with them a couple nights.  Should be fun.  They are really excited.   I lived in this town for six months and knocked on the doors of about half the homes.   Later in 1981, we moved to a city 40 miles away where I worked for IBM for nine years.

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I think the elbow is coming down a little now so I won't look like a freak as much.

Looking at Virgil Crest 100 competition for Saturday.  56 entrants.  22 100-mile rookies who probably won't compete for the win. 13 more back-of the packers.  But that leaves 20 that can comptete.  There are five that really should beat me, including one with elite speed.   So a top-5 finish would be really good.   I have a string of four bad 100 performances going, I hope to break this.  In my favor is low altitude which should keep the stomach happy, and possible poor conditions.  Sloppy with rain usually jumps we way up in the standings since I just ignore it.   Cool weather, high of 65.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 4.00
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Looks like my wishes for a rainy race may come true.  On Friday there could be a half inch of rain dumped on the course and then 50% chance of rain on Saturday, race day.  Should be interesting.  I'll bring the rain gear.  All my friends running the Bear will be running is sissy, pleasant weather.

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In NY.  Taking it easy.  Previewed some sections of the course.  Wow!  The sections I went on were wonderful soft forest trails, look very fast.   I checked out several intersections which will help me not get confused.   Rain likely, but it looks like the trails drain pretty fast.  It is very humid, but not very hot.  It will be interesting running in humidty.   All systems go.

La Sportiva Wildcat Red Miles: 3.00
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Race: Virgil Crest 100 (100 Miles) 32:45:00
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Ran out in Central NY.  First day was rainy, cool, humid.  Very muddy in spots that slowed everyone down.  Finished first 50 in just under 13 hours.  Started really cruising at mile 75-85.  But then the morning sun came out.  My body just isn't adapted to heat/humidity like that.  At mile 90, had to lay in a cot for ten minutes.  By mile 93, I was in a bad way, probably heat stroke, scariest 100-mile experience yet. Dizzy, ashen looking, going 1 mph. They sent someone back from the mile 96 aid station to walk me in the last mile.  Layed on the ground at the aid station for quite a while applying ice. Came pretty clost to DNFing at mile 96.  Finally felt somewhat better.  Asked buddy Phil Rosenstein to run with me to the finish, didn't dare do it alone.  He did and somehow I made it.  Last 10 miles took me nearly 5 hours. Ran that same section in 1:45 for the first 10 miles of the race. Recovery has been very hard.  Six hours later finally starting to fill a bit better.  Learned a good lesson about trying to do hot/humid 100s without humidity training.

Hoka - Stinson Miles: 101.00
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Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 4.00La Sportiva Wildcat Red Miles: 3.00Hoka - Stinson Miles: 101.00
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