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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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Swam in the pool one mile.   I had time to do three miles but the pool was very hot today, probably about 96.  It felt like hot mollases.  It was great heat training but just brutal having your upper body in it for a long time.   The pool is heated by natural springs and somewhat difficult to regulate.  Hopefully it will be cooler tomorrow.    After the mile swim I did plenty of kicking on my back, working the hamstrings.

I walked four miles during lunch.   Today is a good foot day.  I feel less pain today than any other day so for.   On my insole, I did carve out some of the cusion material in the location that affects the tendon.   Sure enough, that seemed to help a bunch.

Yeserday I received in the mail a new pair of trail shoes.  I run in Vasque Velocity, and I bought the new VST model.   I tested them out with a walk and they look like they will work very well and don't put much pressure on the tendon.   I'll work on the insole to make them fit even better.

I'm feeling better about Squaw Peak 50.   They aren't allowing big drop bags at the critical aid station at Little Valley, so I will need to adjust my strategy.  I was going to put a waist belt there in order to carry three bottles, but I may just go with handhelds and really drink as much as I can at that aid station.  We'll see.

Weight (after hot pool): 179

Comments
From Smooth on Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 16:49:48 from 71.36.64.213

That explains why the pool was so HOT! Glad to hear you got the cushion to work alleviating the foot pain. The weather should be good this Sat. for Sqaw Peak, unlike last year's snow and mud. I'll think of your run up there while I do my little race in Springville. GOOD LUCK! Can't wait to read all about it.

From Davy Crockett on Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 20:55:46 from 173.128.158.48

Thanks Smooth. Yep that is one hot pool. Once I complained very hard and even got the health department nvolved. They lowered the temperature down to normal levels but so many people (pool soakers) complained about it being cool that they decided to ignore the fewer complains from the lap swimmers. Oh well, I think of it as heat training, and it actually does help get ready for hot summer runs.

I'm going to be pretty nervous about Squaw Peak 50. It has been a long time since I have been nervous about any race.

From Susanna Lew on Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 21:40:24 from 71.36.64.213

Why are you nervous about this race? Are you worried about the foot?

From Davy Crockett on Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 21:47:48 from 173.128.158.48

Yes. Nervous about running injured. Can't control the outcome. You know the feeling, you just did it.

From Susanna Lew on Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 21:58:40 from 71.36.64.213

Yep, I know the feeling. Keep the faith. Do the best with what you've got. You have trained hard and prepared well. There is always risk associated with a race even when going in healthy. You might be surprised by how well you'll do. Nothing venture nothing gain. I'll be praying for you.

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