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Provo City Half Marathon

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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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Total Distance
50.00
Montrail Wildwood Miles: 17.00Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 19.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 14.00
Total Distance
17.00

Ran the "Handgun route" out out to Eagle Mountain town center, through Ranches and through the Church farm. 17 miles.  Started at 3:00 a.m. and finished at 6:00 a.m. for a 10:41 pace.  Not bad on the rounte, felt fast. About 5.5 miles was on pavement, the rest on dirt roads.  Had some climbing, about 900 feet.   I call it the "Handgun route" because the map of it looks like a gun: http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/ut/saratoga%20springs/346127229247492886

The bad news is that my problem tendon in my ankle is very bad again.  Not quite as bad as last April, but pretty bad.   I'm wondering if seasonal allergies flair it up.  I'll have to research.  I can't remember twisting it bad again.  On all the uneven dirt roads it really complained but was better on the pavement.  A little discouraging, but I know it eventually gets better.  Healing is VERY slow and just stopping running altogether doesn't seem to help a ton.  Sticking to pavement or treadmill does help.  Boring. 

Montrail Wildwood Miles: 17.00
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Total Distance
19.00

Got out again early, at 3:00 a.m.   This was the same run as the previous morning but I added a couple miles to the handle of the gun and increased my pace to 10:14 average.  Felt like I was going faster, but there are some slow climbs and dirt roads.   Boy, the cold air really sinks down to the middle of Cedar Valley.  Both mornings my hands in gloves really got cold for a few miles in that area but then it got warming going up Unity Pass to the Ranches.  The nearly full moon was out, very bright.  For over half the run I didn't use my flashlight.   The problem ankle was much better today.  I wore different shoes and that probably helped.  I'm encouraged.   I also noticed that a possible side-effect of taking Zyrtec for seasonal allergies is tendon disorders.   Has me wondering because both last year and this year, I started having the tendon pain when I started taking Zyrtec.   Yesterday I switched to something else.  We shall see.

The map of my run is at: http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/ut/saratoga%20springs/439127238059614718

Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 19.00
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Race: Provo City Half Marathon (13.1 Miles) 01:34:26, Place overall: 31, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
14.00

I've been plagued by peroneal tendonitis again (ankle), just like a year ago, but not quite as severe.   It doesn't bother me much on the smooth, mostly-flat surfaces, but kills me on the trails.  So I took three days off completely to see if it would help.  It did a little, but still, as I was standing at the start, trying to keep warm, the ankle was in some good pain.  Oh well.

The Provo City marathon runs mostly on roads in South Provo and out toward Utah Lake.  It is mostly flat and also runs about four miles on the Provo River paved trail.   I didn't enjoy this half marathon as much as last week's Thanksgiving Point marathon because this one has way too many cars going by, very bothersome.

A great feature of this race was the weather.  A squall of rain hovered over us and just stayed there.  Twice hail fell from the sky.  I enjoyed it, because I usually do better in poor weather compared to the competition.  It just doesn't bother me much because of all my early cold weather training.  But I did finish before the real downpour started.

I treated this race like a long training tempo run.  I wasn't very serious about it, but still did pretty well.   After two miles, I pretty much settled down into my place, not being passed by other runners but only catch a couple.   I got a little lazy going up the Provo River trail. But wow, during the last two miles, incredible energy kicked in and I was able to pass a couple runners and finish very strong.  That is a nice sign for the Ogden Marathon in a couple weeks.  It felt like I could continue sub-7 miles at that point for quite a few miles if the race was longer.  

My mile splits were: 6:27, 7:01, 6:58, 7:01, 7:09, 7:13, 7:12, 6:56, 7:50, 7:44, 7:37, 7:31, 6:40, and 1:07.   I finished in 1:34:26.  That was 27 seconds faster than last week.

I got second place in my age group, surprised that someone beat me because I never saw him.  But he beat me by five minutes, probably among the fastest in the state in my age group.  I've been getting accustomed to winning my age group in these short races.

I was 31st out of 669 starters. 4th place masters (age 40+) (74 starters).

This was a nice tune-up for Ogden.  That is three times this month that I've run a half marathon in 1:34.  If I do that in Ogden, that will beat my split from last year by 4 minutes. That would be sweet.

 

Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 14.00
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Total Distance
50.00
Montrail Wildwood Miles: 17.00Mizuno Wave Elixer - Red Miles: 19.00Mizuno Wave Elixer 5 - Green Miles: 14.00
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