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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 - Green Miles: 29.00Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 16.00
Race: Boston Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:24:15, Place overall: 5357, Place in age division: 345
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Wow, what an experience running in the Boston Marathon.   My detailed race report can be read here: http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=299

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Sleep has been the story since I ran Boston.  That night, I just had to stay up and watch the Jazz game to the end  (past 1 a.m.) and then needed to get up at 4:30 a.m. to catch my flight.  The night before I only had a few hours of sleep because of pre-race excitement.  So yesterday, boy did I sleep.  Slept on the plane, when I got home, and then nine hours last night.

Recovery?  I think I've recovered (just a tiny bit of shin soreness) and plan to run after work.  I signed up for the Thanksgiving Point half marathon on Saturday, hope to place in my age group.

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Time to push hard training again.  I feel fully recovered from Boston.  Stormy weather out this morning so hit the treadmill.  Hill workout. 7 miles at 8:00 pace with incline 10-15%, holding on the front of the treadmill so I can close my eyes and snooze.  All systems go, nothing really complaining.   The other miles were easier at 5%.  

Ogden marathon and Squaw Peak 50 are the next races to focus on.  Quite the diversity.  But my theory is to train to keep the foot-speed up but also start hitting the hills much harder.  If it works out, I'll PR at Ogden and then have the footspeed for Squaw Peak to course PR there (my sixth time running there). Also doing much more core, upper body, and calf workouts.

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Race: Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:34:52, Place overall: 24, Place in age division: 1
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Just five days after running Boston, I thought I would go ahead and run a new half marathon that is in the neighboring city of Lehi, Utah.  It would be an interesting test to see if I have indeed recovered from Boston.  100% of the entry fees from this half go to funding a new Children's museum at Thanksgiving Point.  They ended up raising $32,000.   The race director is ultrarunner Kendall Wimmer.   He did a fantastic job putting the course and together.

The course isn’t fast, but it isn’t terrible tough either.  It winds and rolls like crazy.  A cool feature is that at mile 3 in runs through the stunning Thanksgiving Point gardens.  The tulips were out in force.   It also runs along the Jordan River over to Willow Park and then returns.  In only its first year, 630 runners started, a pretty big race.  It was an impressive event, very well organized and plenty of great food at the end.  They did a fantastic job pulling in sponsors and had great awards including generous cash awards.  

The morning was perfect, not a cloud in the sky.  The start is early, shortly after dawn at 7:00 a.m.  It was about 38 degrees at the start.

My legs felt good early on and I started in the top ten for the first mile, then backed off as we ran along the golf course and through the gardens.   About 8 runners passed me in that stretch but I kept them in my sights.  For the bulk of the race, I held about 20th place.   There were tons of aid stations, but I ran through every one without taking anything, just using my hand-held water bottle with diluted Ensure.  My legs started to feel a little slow around mile seven, but I was proud that I kept the foot on the gas pedal the entire time..

My miles splits were: 6:15, 7:01, 7:10, 7:20, 6:58, 7:02, 7:27, 7:07, 7:15, 7:28, 7:23, 7:24, and that last mile was probably near 8:20, although that mile might have been a little long.My average mile pace was 7:15.

A couple guys passed me around mile ten and one of them noticed my Boston shirt and recognized that I was running just five days after Boston.  I replied, “Yep, pretty crazy.”  I was fading during the last mile and two runners reeled me in, but I kept pushing the entire way.

I finished in 1:34:52.   Good enough for 24th place overall and first place in my age group.  The 2nd place guy in my age group was more than ten minutes slower.  I was shocked to see that I was only three minutes out of the money.  Could have won $300 for masters champion if I would have really pushed like crazy.  I ended up in 4th place in the masters.

It was nice getting to all the goodies at the finish with just a small handful of runners milling around, pretty deserted.   That's a good clue that you finished well.

It was interesting to see that my pace was almost exactly the same as the first half of Boston.  However, this felt much tougher because of the altitude.  My lungs were really working.  No cramps and I felt fine at the finish.  I hung around and cheered the finishers, having fun talking to many other runners who somehow recognized me.  

At awards, I received a nice trophy.

 

 

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Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 29.00Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 16.00
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