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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.or g/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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It has been a bad couple days but I think some healing is taking place, the pain is starting to feel like a healing type pain. But the pain now is even felt while sitting. Lying down for awhile in the right position makes it go away.

Just to document my findings for my future use. I believe I have several problems and we shall see which take the longest to heal. They are all connected with the knee and I suspect once the knee heals up, everything will heal up. For the worst problem the cause is very likely the recovery of my stride, bringing the leg forward. For that leg, my toes naturally rotate outward on recovery causing the leg to come forward from the side. Lots of the pain can be felt by simply pushing the inside of the foot against something.

Anyway, one problem is with what is called the pes anserine. This is a area where three muscles connect as well as the MCL below the knee on the side of the tibia. I'm having continued swelling on the pes anserine.

"This is a location vulnerable to repeated injury in athletes due to the fact that several ligaments, tendons, and muscles all meet in this same general knee area. This area of ‘high traffic’ can become aggravated with overuse." "

Pes anserine bursitis is most common in long distance runners. Failing to properly stretch is a main cause but this condition also occurs in athletes who tend to contact the ground with their foot rotated outward. Even the slightest outward rotation of the lower limb during contact with the ground causes poor weight distribution and strains the inner thigh muscles and knee ligaments."

Also having trouble with a tendon that wraps around the knee, maybe the popliteus muscle.

Another painful problem is front of the knee, joint line, under the patella tendon. I can't figure that one out, hopefully it calms down and isn't a piece of cartilage causing problems.

So, I'll give it another week and see what things get better before going in to the ortho. It is easier to diagnose things after some things calm down.

Comments

From Dan Varga on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:13:48 from 65.44.116.4

Nice documentation on your injury, good luck on a quick recovery. I have had a similar patella tendon area pain, and for me it is usually caused, as it was last week, by knots/tightness in the upper quad that was tightening up the quad muscle and causing the strain on the patella tendon. A few days of deep massage and ice of that quad area released the tension on the patella tendon.

From crockett on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:21:54 from 216.49.181.254

Thanks Dan. What is odd, is the petella tendon isn't sore at all. And there is no soreness there when I sit. It could just be brusing on underside of the bottom edge of the knee cap. Or that joint-line is hammered. I felt pain in the joint-line area before RR100. I did get some swelling near that area during the last ten miles of RR100 which is what made me slow way down and stop often. Hopefully this one just calms down in a week. It seems to come and go.

From Jon on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 20:33:45 from 98.71.182.124

pes anserine- I swear doctors just make up names as they go...

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