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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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Mon, May 30, 2011
Total Distance
28.00

Did a spectacular run in another lesser-known Utah gem.   I went to Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument - Little Death Hollow, Wolverine Creek, and Horse Canyon, a big loop with a side trip up out of the canyon and a side trip down to the Escalante River.  It was perfect weather, I got away from the rain and cold.  It was a spectacular run.   I ran through miles of slots canyons that are littered with petrified wood.

Details and pictures available: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=794

La Sportive Wildcat - Yellow (new) Miles: 28.00
Comments
From jun on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:28:15 from 66.239.250.209

Do you just have a big map of Utah you throw pins at? Wherever one lands you make up some crazy run there?

Question - what do you do if you miss the map? Do you go to another state and find something nuts to do there?

From crockett on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:43:36 from 216.49.181.254

Google Earth is now a great tool to find hidden gems. In this case, back in 2003, coming back from running in Lower Muley Twist (another hidden gem), I drove the Burr Trail and was super impressed with this area between Capitol Reef and Boulder. I had my eye on a run in Moody Creek for some time, but then last week looked at what was further west and discovered this area. Then with google can find trip reports. A backpacking group had posted something from a trip in early May that was helpful to know what to expect. And then of course as I drive too and from, I spot other likely adventure locations.

From jun on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:50:39 from 66.239.250.209

My friend and I used to do that with hikes and canyons down in So Utah. He would call me up at night and tell me to come over. He'd have some random topo map and his finger pointing at a narrow no-named canyon somewhere in the Zion back country. We'd go attempt it like two days later. I think it is stuff like that and what you do that truly makes it "adventure" running. No many have the nerve to do it.

From crockett on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:56:03 from 216.49.181.254

Yep. For me, as long as there is nothing technical or dangerous, I'll give it a try. In that area I went to, there is another long slot called "The Gulch", next canyon to the west that I would like to do. It sounds wetter, with more pools. What I think is cool too, just climbing up, out of the canyons and just exploring on the high mesas. That is really remote, no foot prints up there.

From crockett on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:58:40 from 216.49.181.254

I did think of you several times yesterday as I hit these massive chokestones that I had to climb over in the slot canyon. I wished I had some bouldering experience. I did figure things out each time and got over them. It was harder the direction I was going, up-stream. Downstream, you can just jump off them.

From jun on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 16:00:29 from 66.239.250.209

Yeah, upstream in a slot canyon is much more difficult than going down. If I ever go with you I'll teach you such fine techniques as "chimneying", "Stemming", and the ever-elusive "heel hook". Ha.

From crockett on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 16:03:00 from 216.49.181.254

Yep, to get up one, I had to use my back against the wall and then extend my feet to the other wall, inching my way up. I hit about four difficult obstacles like this. "Oh no, not another one!"

From jun on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 16:33:05 from 66.239.250.209

Yep, that's 'chimneying'. It's much easier going down then up. Those pics were awesome.

From crockett on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 21:26:12 from 216.49.181.254

Detailed report at: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=794

From JD on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 21:32:47 from 71.37.100.47

"This would normally be a three-day backpacking trip — for those who are normal." Davy Crockett

Ha! Sounds like another great adventure.

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