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May 04, 2024

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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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In San Francisco on business. Treadmill at 7:15 pace.  My son Ryan opened his mission call last night -- to Guatemala.  My grandfather was the first mission president there in 1952, going there with Spencer W. Kimball to open the mission. My grandfather built up the Church there and built the first meetinghouse (recently demolished). His son, my uncle, also served as a mission president there.  So, it really is a great inspired call for our family.

Tonight I went to dinner with my Bay-area sibblings.  Two sisters and a brother.  I don't see them very often.  It was a lot of fun.

Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 8.00
Comments
From Kelli on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:56:47 from 71.219.75.178

Congrats on the mission call!!! So, he opened it without you there? I hope you were at least on the phone. That sounds like it will be a great place for him with all the family history there.

Hey, Spencer W Kimball is my relative, but I can not remember how. I think he was my grandpas uncle or something like that. Anyway, my mom's maiden name is Kimball, so my relative was with your relative opening that mission.

Great job on the TM. man alive, you crank out the speed on those machines. I am so impressed with that, I struggle in the high 8's!

From crockett on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:21:24 from 12.35.79.3

Ryan opened the mission call Sunday evening. I was there. It had arrived Wednesday, but he was in Arizona. His loving sister hid the call and made a creative treasure hunt that took him a half hour to get through. Even had one clue hidden in my "stinking running stuff." The call was hidden in the mail box, right where it should be. He will be the fourth of my kids to serve a mission.

From Smooth on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:30:19 from 174.23.172.155

CONGRATULATIONS to Ryan's mission call! What a great place for him to serve. You have such WONDERFUL kids.

Very speedy TM run. Enjoy your business trip in San Fran.

From Kelli on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 14:07:40 from 71.219.75.178

How many kids are left?

From crockett on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 14:14:32 from 12.35.79.3

Daughter got married a few months ago, so no mission for her, but I have a 12-year old son.

From Kelli on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 14:16:23 from 71.219.75.178

Well, then, you have a few years on him.

From flatlander on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 15:05:51 from 198.207.244.102

Congratulations. Sounds like you have raised a great group of kids.

From Rye on Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:11:51 from 174.27.56.170

Mission calls are awesome. My son leaves today for Lansing Michigan and my daughter leaves in two weeks for Washington DC South. I am joining the 800 club fast. Good luck sending him off. Good luck with the running!!

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