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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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Race: Utah Lake Marathon (26 Miles) 07:00:00, Place overall: 1
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Well, this isn't really a race report, but I did run an incredible marathon adventure run on frozen Utah Lake, the largest fresh-water lake in Utah.  It covers about 97,000 acres (151 square miles) and is 23 miles long (north-south) and a has a maximum width of 13 miles (east-west.)   It is a shallow lake, with an average depth of 9.4 feet. 

I ran from Saratoga Springs to Bird Island (on the south end of the lake) and back.   During the morning I was totally enveloped in fog and had to rely on my GPS to make sure I didn't run around in circles.  It is difficult to decribe the amazing experience being out on the ice.  It makes you feel like you are running in Antarctica. The ice flows built up around Bird Island were awesome. 

Watch my youtube movie!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3nWGC--D0

Near the end of my run I was entertained by Super Dell Schanze on his motorized paraglider with skis!   See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdBdrSQbM9M&eurl=http://dellschanze.blogspot.com/  He was swooping and skiing all over the lake.  It was a sight to see!   What a fantastic day and run.   I will post pictures and audio on my blog tomorrow at www.crockettclan.org/blog   You can also read/listen and see pictures from my run across the lake to Orem on Saturday.  See: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=135

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Took a "zero day" and rested some more, just because I felt like it.   I also finished up my youtube movie on my Utah Lake ice adventure on monday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3nWGC--D0

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Seven easy miles at the Legacy Center and then watched my son at the swim meet there.  He's a captain on the Lehi High School swim team.

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Five treadmill miles.   I stopped early because I feared I would slit my wrists because of boredom.  I'm sick of that stupid machine.  No more!

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Five miles with the dog on Utah Lake.   With warmer temperatures, the crystals have melted and the sandy snow now is packable snow, easier to run on.   The little dog just loves it out there.  She probably ran an extra couple miles just going back and forth. 

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