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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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Still bummed out about my Ogden performance.  That is silly because I PRed, and that further emphasizes to me why running marathons is kind of stupid.   Measuring an accomplishment solely by a clock seems wrong.  But what nags me about Saturday is that I didn't reach my goal because of a preventable mistake.  A missed opportunity.  Well, learn from it and move on.

I'm still convinced that it was a dehydration problem.  Some think I just went out too fast, but I discount that because I felt fine the first 14 miles and never cramped up even afterwards.   With the 70 or so races I've run in the past six years of marathon length or higher, I just haven't really seen much overall difference from going out slow vs. fast for me.  I still subscribe to running at the pace that feels good.   A couple times I have gone out too fast and cramped up later because of it. But other times I've gone out fast and later at mile 90 able to crank out the fastest splits of the race.  I think more importantly is managing intake.  I didn't do that well, thinking the marathon distance is just too short and fast.

I'm ready and motivated to start serious training for my summer 100s.  However, the marathon left my ankle in poorer shape.  I was going to hit the trails this morning, but really couldn't.  Discouraging, because this is exactly where I was one year ago from today with the exact same injury.   Well, wearing the boot for 12 hours seemed to help lots.  Otherwise, legs feel great, just a little soreness in the hamstrings.   I will run the new tough Timp Trail marathon on Saturday. 

Comments
From Kam on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:05:05 from 68.66.163.179

Don't be bummed out. You probably are right about being a little bit dehydrated. At the same time, races are such a crapshoot. You had a pretty strenuous effort a couple weeks ago, and maybe your legs weren't totally fresh? Once in a while the stars align and you have a perfect race. Once in a while the stars are completely out of alignment, and pretty much everything goes wrong. I bet your perfect marathon would put you around 3:10, and a somewhat better than average race would have you under the 3:15 you are shooting for. Way to gut it out on Saturday. You came in faster than 90% of the pack! Amazing.

From crockett on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:38:59 from 216.49.181.254

Kam, thanks. Yep, I understand about the crap shoot. 100s are crap shoots too. Problem is that I do so few of these road marathons, missed shot and I'll be older next year. Oh well.

From Maurine/Miles on Tue, May 18, 2010 at 19:03:17 from 63.255.172.2

Davy - I think we have the same ankle issues - except I am wussier about mine. I ice mine at night and wear the boot to bed when it is sore. I also had some herbal injections in the ankle that were supposed to help regenerate damaged tissue. On rocky trails I am wearing an ankle brace that supports both sides of the arch to try and keep it from getting bad again.

Good luck in that training.

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