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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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Total Distance
42.00

Did an amazing 42-mile run in a very, very remote section of Capitol Reef National Park.  Wow, it was a great experience in this much ignored national treasure.   Details and pictures coming.

See spectacular photos.  What a perfect day.  Started running at 2:30 a.m., did an out and back.  Reached the 21-mile turnaround point at 8:30 a.m. 

Read the detailed report here.

Came within six miles of Lake Powell. Here is my Garmin track, 21 miles down and back.

Montrail Wildwood Miles: 42.00
Comments
From fiddy on Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 00:33:37 from 155.99.198.51

Wow, that sounds great! Beautiful photos.

From Jon on Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 15:58:38 from 98.71.144.213

I really like your photo 19, where some of the ice has fallen in big chunks. And I can't imagine how many takes you had to get the action shot on photo 22.

From crockett on Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 18:37:53 from 216.49.181.254

Posted my detailed write-up of this adventure at: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=535

That action photo took only two takes.

From RAD on Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 22:07:05 from 67.172.229.125

Thanks for sharing Davy! My sincerest wish in life is to grow up and be like you! You probably hear that all the time, but I really do, to run where you run and with the courage and stamina you have (I'm a pansy when I'm alone) are unparalleled! I absolutely LOVE the desert you are right that Capitol reef is rather ignored, or overlooked. Scenery is beautiful. Someday...someday!

From Jim Kern on Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 23:03:46 from 98.202.241.209

Great run, great pictures. Thanks for the write-up.

From jun on Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:01:27 from 66.239.250.209

A little like RAD, I also hope to be able to get out and do super cool adventure runs like you. I also get the most satisfaction from them. However, I don't want to be exactly like you. I'd like to continue to grow older remaining much better looking. I know it's a long shot, but still.

From crockett on Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 16:02:44 from 216.49.181.254

Hey jun, for guys old as the hills like me, we don't care what we look like, we just are thrilled to wake up and still have a pulse. Tough to understand when you are a young punk, but someday you will know.

From Smooth on Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 16:59:18 from 67.2.111.170

Thank you for sharing, Davy! LOVE your report and awesome photos. I'll live/run vicariously thru you as I AM old and pansy! :) You're truly amazing!

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