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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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A little update.  Ups and downs.  Some times I get worried that things aren't going well but as I compare week-to-week, I still see improvement.  I can walk pain-free this week and in addition the leg feels strong again.   I can go pound the elliptical like crazy, it feels like a marathon-pace effort on hills.  At first I could only do that for 10-15 minutes.  Now I can do it for an hour or more.   People in the rec room are again making comments about how crazy my workout is.

The running motion still puts pressure on the facture area, but running on grass seems to minimize it as long as I keep the pace easy.  Monday I did run a 12-minute mile on the grass and that seems to be the speed limit right now.  However, I can keep a 15-minute pace going for over an hour just fine.

So, that is where things are.   If I remember how I felt in March, I had my doubts if I would ever get this far.

I think much of the pain I still feel now and then are soft tissue pains as it gets used to being used again and adapting to the new bumps on the bone.  Pains don't stay and they aren't bone aching pains that I used to feel all the time.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - White Miles: 8.00
Comments
From Smooth on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:31:36 from 67.2.119.203

So happy to hear that the healing process is going well. Especially happy to hear thst the pain is good kind of pain. Things are heading the right direction. I guess it helps to look at things in retrospect sometimes in order to see how far we've come along in the healing process Keep up the positive attitude and burn up the elliptical! :)

From cachedout on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 13:28:24 from 24.10.223.155

I see an ultra-elliptical race in your future.

Good work, Davy. Hope you come out to the Speedgoat to say hi and watch the carnage. Going to be a fun race to watch.

From jun on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 13:46:35 from 205.158.160.209

You're on your way, that's what's important.

From flatlander on Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:39:24 from 76.31.26.153

Looking great, I think you will be back to full strength soon.

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