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, Feb 02, 2013

Total Distance

15.00

Ran with a group of 8 others across Utah Lake. We started at Saratoga Springs Harbor Marina. It was 6 degrees. I dressed warmly. It was very foggy the entire way over. No one brought a good GPS so and I had not paid attention to the right direction to Lindon marina. So we just guessed. At one point one guy pulled out his phone and had the harbor marked. He had us head north. It didn't seem right be we made the turn. After another mile, another guy showed me his phone and it had us heading in another direction that made more sense, so we again turned, this time in the right direction. It was pretty funny, but an amazing adventure to run in the fog. The snow was about 4 inches deep, so made for some hard work, good exercise. We stopped several times, just having a good time. One group of three went pretty far ahead. We could not see them at all but at times Skip would whistle. We would yell and try to get them going in the right direction. Finally, I was amazed that we arrived at the marina, exactly as we should. It came into view less than 100 yards through the fog.

Four decided to catch a ride. I wanted more miles, not tired at all yet, so ran back with three others. Eventually the fog lifted and I could see our approximate destination. Our route back was much straighter and we saved about a mile. The late morning was amazing on the lake.

The ice was still very thick, but we did cross over one crack that was curious. about six feet from the crack on either side was slush and our feet sunk in an inch. Pretty freaky. We were very careful. Other than that, we didn't see any other problem areas except thin ice within a few feet of the shore.

It was a wonderful run. I forgot to put on my sunglasses when the fog finally lifted and just 45 minutes of sun on that snow left we with sore eyes for the rest of the day.

I still have a sore hamstring from earlier in the week. I would have gone back out for more, but need to rest it.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 6 - Yellow Miles: 14.00

Comments

From Neasts on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 19:25:21 from 71.213.42.178

Nice job. I think that's the long crack I could see in the lake from the top of Lake Mtn. yesterday. You couldn't have paid me to run on the lake after seeing that. :-)

From crockett on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 19:35:58 from 97.117.1.189

Those monntain fissues aren't a problem unless they have water on either side. The odd one we went over was just flat but for some reason has slushy ice on both sides. I hadn't seen one of those before.

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