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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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Total Distance
155.00

Ran Across the Years again.  This time the 72 hour race.  In previous 48-hour races I clocked 187, 175, and 135. So with the extra day it should be easy to reach 200, right?   Not so fast.  This year I had lots of issues to deal with...my bad leg was a constant worry....should I push it, should I hold back.  On day 2 I had some lung problems, bad congestion and the lungs would get very sore if I tried to run fast.  Day 3 I had bad back soreness.   The entire time I had bad quad soreness.   So it was quite the challenge.   I started off fine and for the first 20 mile was in first place.  Buddy Mike Miller than passed me but I still stayed in 2nd place well into day 2.  My 50 time was bad, 10:10.  The heat was despetive and slowed me down greatly.  I reached 100 in a slow 25:05.  In past years I would reach that between 19:40 and 22 hours.  Nights were the best for me.  At times I would by far be the speediest on the quiet track at night.  Day 2 was a struggle with some long rests.  I only ran about 40 miles on Day 2. At 136 miles I was seriously going to quit because i saw swellness in the leg.   But I went back out, tested things out and did more careful running.  But I really could only run 7-8 miles at a time.  Sleep deprivation was bad.  On Day 3, I shut it down for the heat of the day, washed up and tried to sleep.  Didn't sleep much.  As dusk arrived I went back out and ran some another pretty fast 15 miles.  But by 8 p.m. I could tell that I was thrashed, painful slow walking and I felt very sick.   I drove to a motel very beat up and slept for the night.  I woke a 2 a.m., got up to test the legs and feet but rejected wishes to go back to the track.  At 5 a.m. I did it again and this time felt much better.  By 6 a.m. I was again running fast on the track.  I did another nine miles until it was too painful and then quit an hour early with 163 miles total for 14th place.  Not bad, but I know I can do much, much better if I didn't have the issues I did.   I had a great time running with friends.

New Balance Leadville Miles: 5.00Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 150.00
Comments
From Jon on Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 15:08:42 from 107.203.52.135

Sorry to hear it didn't go more to your plan, but sounds like you still enjoyed yourself.

From Kendall on Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 10:12:20 from 208.187.252.10

Fun following you guys over the weekend. Congrats, that's a lot of miles.

From Steve on Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:23:30 from 66.87.112.197

Good job. I have thought a few times about doing one of these kind of races. Good way to test your mettle.

From Tom Slick on Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 14:56:40 from 69.171.160.245

That's totally impressive! I think I'll stick to the smaller races like (26.2) marathons.

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