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May 03, 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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Feel fully recovered already from the 79 miles Friday and Saturday.   I've been using a different training strategy, very long weekend miles with recovery and rest during the week.  But overall weekly miles still big.   My theory with this approach is that it helps me to recover very fast between 100s and also makes running 100s much less painful.  Running 50 miles now is no big deal, starting to feel like a 20-mile run used to feel.

However, this approach doesn't help with speed, but at my age, speed is just so hard to keep up without doing a bunch of tempo/speed work.  However, that seems to be leading to injury easier.   So, instead of being speedy, I would rather run strong and steady, being able to recover fast so I can do as many long adventure runs as time and life's demands will permit.   I think I'm going into the spring/summer season more prepared than I have since 2010.

Comments
From Kam on Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:32:07 from 68.66.163.179

Crockett, do you ever do motivational speaking gigs? My daughter is looking for someone to talk to/entertain the national honor society kids at her school.

From crockett on Thu, May 16, 2013 at 13:12:00 from 216.49.181.254

I've done a couple talks with scout troops preparing for 50-milers, but don't really have anything put together to do something like that.

From Neasts on Thu, May 16, 2013 at 13:36:59 from 75.169.56.70

Davy, you NEED to start putting something together. You might pique an interest in some of the youth (and their leaders) that might lead to something down the road. Why not? You have no shortage of stories, I'm sure!

From Russ on Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:25:11 from 74.114.3.253

I agree with Neasts! All you need is a coon skin cap and a computer with access to your running blogs and you can regale them with tales of hunting in Kentucky and your distance running. They don't need to know you're not THAT Davy Crockett.

Seriously, I think the stories of your OKTs (only known times) would be fascinating. Double summit of Kings Peak, 7 summits of 13-ers, 5 consecutive Timpanogos summits, running the Grand Canyon lengthwise. Throw in some maps, stories of your preparation, and then some interesting parts of those journeys and you've got a really nice presentation.

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