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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: 52.00
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OK, tempo training week is over, thank goodness.  Back to the miles.  It was good to avoid the treadmill this morning.  Instead I ran loops above my home.  There is a dirt road loop that goes around "rattlesnake ridge" and it is exactly one mile long.  To bad no sunrise to watch, stupid Daylight Saving time.

I'll probably keep the miles up this week, got to keep on top of the mileage board for the month.

p.m. six during lunch.

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Slept in, was nice and lazy. 

Starting to have 100-mile race dreams again.  They are always frustrating and funny.  The typical dream is that I'm running Wasatch 100 and for some reason I lose the course even though I've run it many times.  The course flags disappear, and I'm almost always in some sort of large building, trying to figure out stairs, hallways, etc.  Eventually I realize that my race is ruined because I've spent too much time wandering around lost.

Four during lunch

p.m. 5 with the dog

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Ten slow miles in the Lake Mountain foothills.  Just ran around with a little exploring. The trails were find until approaching into the mouths of canyons.  Then they were muddy and I turned around.  The trails are good on my lower legs.  I can tell I haven't had enough trail time to keep them strong.

Finally in the top ten on the mileage board for the year.  I used to be well down page two.  Last year I finished tenth.

5 miles at lunch

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Six very easy

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Race: Shamrock Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:36:44, Place overall: 7, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
19.00

The Shamrock Half Marathon is a low-key half in my home town of Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain.  It is a tough hilly course, lots of turns and about 900 feet of climbing along the way.  It even has a quarter mile of dirt.  Last year I ran in just under 1:38.  I hoped to improve that by at least a couple minutes this year.  But the wind this year had other ideas.  We had gusts of over 20 mph.  Some of the flats would feel like tough hills.  So I readjusted my expectations, hoping to at least beat my course PR by a minute.  It seemed like there were about 200-250 runners.

The race unfolding a lot like last year.  During the first couple miles I was with the front-runners but the eased back and was passed by a couple groups before mile 4.  Buddy Mark Ellison passed me at about the same place as last year, and just like last year, I kept him in my sights until the finish, but never passing him.

Splits for the first half of the race were: 6:25, 7:48 (hiill), 7:27 (wind), 8:26 (hill), 7:49, 7:28.  By mile five, I finally felt warmed up and felt more comfortable, able to push the speed up a little at times.  No one would pass me after about mile 4. 

For the next few miles, we continued to run in residental areas of the Ranches.  At about mile 8, I crossed the main road and the volunteers weren't really pointing which way to go, so I started to run up the wrong road.  But I no longer could see the guys in front of me, so I quickly turned around, realizing my mistake.  When I did turn on the right road, I was shocked to see a pretty large group of runners within view.  Where did they come from?  I finallhy concluded that they had missed the turn, they were runners who had passed me about five miles earlier.  I didn't feel too bad for them, they should have studied the course map, that is part of the game.

The toughest uphill is at mile 9.6 and then a nice fast dirt downhill.  My legs still had some good speed in them, and I was able to find some 6:15 pace speed.   My splits for miles 7-10 were: 7:33:, 7:12, 8:03, 7:43. 

With just three miles to go, mostly flat and downhill, it was time to reel in some runners.  I was able to pass three.  I finished the race with 6:56, 7:08, and 6:24.  Like last year, I wished the race had some more miles, because I was really gaining on runners ahead and didn't feel tired.  I finished in 1:36:44, beating my course PR by over a minute.  I again won my age group and finished 7th overall.

After finishing, I filled my bottle and immediately went out for more miles.  I ran those last downhill fast miles a couple more times, great fun pushing sub-7 pace.  Ended up doing six bonus miles.  Fun times.

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