Old Man Still running

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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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Sat, May 18, 2013

Total Distance

20.00

I wanted to get in some altitude training so I headed up American Fork Canyon. I didn't have any specific plans, didn't bring or check a map, just started running up the Pine Hollow Trail. It was wonderful. I made my way up the Ridge Trail and then it started raining for a few minutes, enough to get the trails wet. I then headed down toward the Cascade Springs Road and tested the new shoes (NB Leadville) in the mud. They held up pretty well, not bad on the slippery downhills and they also didn't collect a ton of mud in the sticky places.

Made my way to the Alpine Summit and after a long bathroom break continued on, running random trails, connecting to the trail to Timpooneke. The new parking lot is nice and will allow for a few more cars, but not a bunch more.

I then decided to run up the Timpooneke trail. Snow appeared within the first mile and detours were required nearing Scout Falls. I stayed close to the trail above that, but made some direct climbs when long post-holes were coming up. I made it to the big flat area where the stream comes around from the left. Instead of following the trail, I headed right across the giant step and then found a nice moose trail to take straight up to the last giant step, near the rock slide. Once up there, the snow was very deep. That was enough for me. I was at 8,700 feet. I headed down, doing some butt slide on the snow.

Continuing on, I took the 151 trail as high as it went with great ridge views and then blasted 2,000 feet down the Bear Canyon trail in just 2.5 miles. Great fun! It is so nice to be able to run downhills again. At Mutual Dell, I then took the short trail up to Pine Hollow trailhead to my car.

Wow, what a wonderful day. I saw no one on the trails and very few human tracks. I did see plenty of moose tracks on the trails. It was a nice peaceful day of running. I took my sweet time and even stopped at times to clear the trails of dead fall. Somehow I managed to dodge most of the rain. I did about 6,000 feet of climbing along the way.

Leadville Miles: 20.00

Comments

From JimmySG on Sat, May 18, 2013 at 18:37:44 from 67.172.232.21

Sounds like a really fun adventure. Glad you dodged most of the rain, and the moose...

From Kendall on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 13:41:21 from 208.187.252.10

Looks like a great route. I was up there yesterday wondering where to go and what to do. Wish I had seen this first. Nice run!

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