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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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Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 82.00La Sportiva Wildcat - Green Miles: 11.00
Total Distance
9.00

Treadmill.  Lots of incline this morning, machine said I climbed 3,000 feet.  Also doing some weights and core every day.  After ATY my left shoulder was pretty sore from arm swinging for 48 hours or from holding a water bottle for hours.

Rocky Raccoon 100 is now in my sights.  It is only 26 days away!  I'm even working on my pacing goals.  I really believe I can break 20 hours there this year.  Shoot, I broke 20 hours for 100-miles at ATY with 18 hours of rain and mud and and more than a half hour of stops. (still haven't seen my detailed splits for Day one).  So why can't I do the same or better at Rocky?  The altitude is even lower. I'll really have to minimize my aid station stops.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 9.00
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Total Distance
10.00

A bad cold set in.  Still did some treadmill.

My first-day splits for ATY were finally posted.  Lots of interesting data to me.  I updated my PRs (to the left).  The downpour cost me about 20 minutes into my 100-mile time.  Splits at: http://www.acrosstheyears.com/cgi-bin/splits.cgi?y=2010&rid=708

Here's my average lap time pace for each 10K segment.   The spike at 15 is due ot the downpour.  The spike at 17 was due to break after 24 hours trying to solve my chafing problem, changing all my clothes and shoes.  My splits were coming down during the second evening as I started "sprinting" some laps.   And then came the 4-hour lazy break.  Note the huge improvement after the rest.

This is average lap time for that 10K stretch.  Each lap is 1/2 K.  I tried to keep lap times under 3 minutes for quite awhile and then under 4 minutes for quite awhile, etc.

A 3:00 lap average is a 1:00:00 10K.

A 4:00 lap average is a 1:20:00 10K. etc.

My first 10K was 51:36, 8:18 mile pace.  Second 10K was 52:54, 8:31 mile pace, etc.

100 miles is just over 160K, so 16 on the graph.

 

Compare this to my ATY 2008 splits.  Huge improvement, mind boggling because 2008 was perfect weather.

 

 

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 10.00
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Total Distance
18.00

More treadmill, legs feeling strong.  Did a long stretch at 19% incline (holding on to the front).

Here's my ATY chart again, this time with minite-miles, easier to understand.  Look at those slow miles during the second half.  Easy stuff, anyone could do this, right?  Those of course include stops.  It does show that there is plenty of room for improvement to reach 200 miles.

 p.m. Instead of just laying around feeling sick, went and ran more treadmill. 

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 18.00
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11.00

More treadmill, Flats today, 8-7:30 pace with 2% incline.

Went to the doctor and dentist to take care of my non-running problems.  I found out that I'm actually a teen-ager.  That explains a lot.  I need to go have a wisdom tooth taken out.

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 11.00
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Total Distance
26.00

Hilly treadmill workout, at least half 10-19% incline.  Machiine thinks I climbed 5,000 feet.

Going to have a fun Monday, getting a wisdom tooth hacked up.  They can't take out the roots, too close to the nerve, so they will cut off the top, hack at it some, and try to reach my pain threshold.  Bring it on!

p.m. More treadmill.

eve. 4 with the dog

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 20.00
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Total Distance
27.00

Treadmill.  Took about seven miles to feel warmed up.  Good training week this week, but more than 80 miles on the treadmill was brutal.  Funny that still the miles this month is way short from the miles run the last two days of last year.

Kept thinking of friends running HURT 100 in Hawaii.  It helped me keep going, understanding the tough run they are doing over there.

Did an ice run on Utah Lake.  Lots of people out there.  Duck hunters, ATVs pulling sledders, and others.   I first went out to check it with the dog. It is her favorite place in the world.  She just runs and runs and runs and runs.

Went back out and ran a long loop to American Fork and back.  Lots of fun. Oh, I see I topped 100 miles this week.  How did that happen?

La Sportiva Wildcat - Green Miles: 11.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
101.00
Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Black Miles: 82.00La Sportiva Wildcat - Green Miles: 11.00
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