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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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14 Treadmill miles at about 8:00 pace.   4 mile walk during lunch up above the capital building.

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Ran 5 tempo miles at Legacy Center.  5K in 21:09.  Felt fast and strong dodging all the walkers and runners on the track.  Met Clint from Eagle Mountain who has run in the Buffalo Run 25K each year.

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AM.  Slept in.

4 walking miles during lunch

PM

7 miles at Legacy Center.  5K tempo run of 21:00.  The rest at 9:00 pace.  Inversion weather setting in.  I'm looking forward to climbing hills.   Warmer as you go higher.

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Very sluggish and slow miles on the treadmill.  Quit early.   10 degrees out.  Longing for the hills.

4-mile walk during lunch to Warm Springs Park, the historic location of the warm springs that the 1847 pioneers discovered and enjoyed bathing in.  The springs were covered up around 1870.   Some nice historical monuments at the park.

PM

8 miles at Legacy Center, steady 8:00 pace until I got bored.  Felt much better compared to the morning.

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6 degrees F out this morning.   I know it is warmer up in the hills, but this cold is brutal.   Just can't get motivated to pile on the clothes at get out when it is that cold.   8 more boring miles on the treadmill.  Sluggish at first but warmed up in a few miles.   Noticed that I need to drink a bunch more in the warm room, getting dehydrated toward the end.

4-mile walk during lunch in avenues west of captital.

PM

5 miles at the Legacy Center indoor track.  8:30 pace.  Last mile for the day was 6:42.  Nice.

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4 F on the Utah Lake shore this morning as all of Utah is dumping its cold air at my doorstep.  The appears to be almost a 30 degree warmer temperature difference up on the mountain ridges.   The ice fog is pretty amazing.  I'll take some pictures tomorrow morning of the frost on the trees.  I'll also go out on the lake.  I see tracks of sleds or something, so I should be able to run in the deep snow if someone has packed it down.

15 boring miles on the treadmill

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Went out a mile and back on frozen Utah Lake.  Check out the photo: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5605845&l=2f42c&id=754525693

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4 F on the lake shore.   Rambled 9 miles on the treadmill to the tunes of Allman Brother's "Ramblin Man."   Noticed that I lost about 5 pounds this week without really trying.  Thats OK, can help me get back down to racing weight.

Ran on frozen Utah Lake, ran from Saratoga Springs to Orem (actually Vineyard).  The rather deep crystally snow made it a tough workout.  Ice is solid away from the shores.  ATVs, duck hunters, ice fisherman are out on it.   A podcast of my adventure will be up on my blog soon at: www.crockettclan.org/blog

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