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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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Mon, Dec 19, 2011

Total Distance

8.00

Tapering now, just staying loose and trying not to gain too much weight. I put together a scatter graph of my last year's ATY 48-hour run to study the pace of my laps. Each dot is a 1/2 km lap. There are about 12 dots that are off the chart, slow, some long stops, 15-minute+. Pace (Y-axis) is minute/mile pace. It is interesting to consider, that at 160 miles, if I would have just walked a 15-minute pace to the finish, I would have reached 200 miles. But I was hammered, it was very cold after that cold front came in. So I quit for 4 hours until I decided that was stupid and went back out and ran 27 more miles.

Hoka Bondi B - New Miles: 8.00

Comments

From jun on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:04:21 from 205.158.160.209

Wow, that's super cool. Are you hoping to trend that overall average down a little this year or are you just targeting continuous movement?

From crockett on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:15:31 from 216.49.181.254

I think the pace is fast enough, just need to shorten the stops and hope for warmer weather during the night.

From cachedout on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 14:28:42 from 24.10.223.155

The more I look at this, the other thing that stands out is the fast start. It seems clear that it helped propel you to the win and gave you the distance under your belt that you needed in the later hours. More and more, I'm convinced that faster(er) starts in ultras are the way to go, so long as one is careful not to completely blow up.

From crockett on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 15:02:25 from 216.49.181.254

Yes, fast starts seem to help as long as the heart rate is under control and you don't go anaerobic. The best help is mentally. In this type of loop course, you can always track your competition, so mentally being out in front helps. With age, this starting fast stuff is getting harder, so this year I may be more steady.

Compare to Matt Watts' approach. He is always very steady. His scatter chart for his 24-hours last year is at: http://crockettclan.org/images/watts.jpg

Notice how around mile 80 he stopped running and went into his amazing power walk, steady at 15:00 pace. Notice also that he had NO long stops. I don't know how he does it. He did run on the best weather day, but still. He's running the 48-hour this year and I think is my stiffest competition.

From Jake K on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 16:01:26 from 155.100.226.53

I love that data you can generate from a race like that! And the fact that you were able to knock out some 7-minute miles 150 miles into the race. Unreal.

From Andrea on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 16:06:35 from 72.37.171.52

This is awesome!

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