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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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Recovery, (now 26.5 hours after finishing) is going very well.  Only a couple small blisters on two toes that I did a bad tape job on.  I never noticed the blisters until I took off my socks.  I have a bit of tendinitis on top of my left foot, creaking a little, but not bad.  I slept fine last night.  My hamstring is sore, but not bad.   Because of the cold weather while running, my appetite is still good.  (Heat kills my appetite and system for a few days following a 100).   So all looks good.  I'm likely to try running Salt Flats 100 on Friday.  Yep, pretty crazy.  I've never attempted to do back-to-back like that before.

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Good progress.  Tendinitis in the foot is still a bother, leg muscles still a little sore, but all getting better.  Walking normal again. I do still feel starving a couple hours after a meal.  That is different, don't usually experience that three days later.

I am very likely to go try to run Salt Falts 100 on Friday, but may just bail out at some point if it becomes grueling. I'd like at least to have a chance to run the speedway.

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Race: Salt Flats 100 (100 Miles) 23:29:19, Place overall: 8
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A short report.   I was curious if I could run another 100 just six days after running 107.7 at North Coast 24.   So I went ahead and gave Salt Flats 100 try.  A couple others ran it after finishing Zion 100 a week ago.  I worried about some aches and pains that were still there, but they weren't a problem a few miles into the race.

We first ran 14 miles or so across the famed speedway....very cool.  I didn't go out fast and instead hung back and chatted with friends for several miles.  I then started to struggle so kicked it up a notch, 8:30 pace to see if I could work out the kinks.  That helped for several miles and I passed a bunch, but by the time we got off the speedway and near Floating Island, I was again struggling on the flats, not enough recovery, heavy legs.   But I hung in there.   People started to find out that I had finished running 107 miles just five days early and they were facinated and impressed that I was ahead of them.

Then something very interesting happened, we hit our first major hill on Sliver Island, several miles of constant uphill.  Those around me were walking, but I discovered that I could run every step up the hill and do so pretty fast.  I passed a handful of runners.  This pattern continued throughout the race.  I would struggle on the flats but on every hill, I could really charge up it and I kept moving up in the standings.

However on the other side of Crater Island, we had to do a very long seven-mile mud flat run that you just couldn't run fast.  Because of the slowness, I ran out of water with three miles to go and really suffered with dehydration.  I ended up losing at least 90 minutes because of that.

It took me 2.5 hours to finally recover.  The sun was just about set and when I arrived at the mile 61 aid station, I felt fantastic.   I decided that it was time to race.  I put on a specific song that has a beat that really helps me run fast up hills.  It worked.  The next leg was to go up and over a pass on Silver Island.   I ran like crazy up that hill, passing several, and by the time I reached the next aid station, I caught up with runners who had left me behind hours earlier.   I then charged up the next hill passing more and as I ran down the other side, I had moved into 7th place and had my sights on the 6th place guy.  I was really flying and having a blast.   

But, in the dark, I took my eye of the trail for a moment, tripped and took a major fall, resulting in a very bloody arm.  I was lucky it didn't break.   That totally took the wind out of my sails and at the next aid station I had to stop to try to fix up the arm.

For the rest of the night, I had good periods whenever I had an uphill.  The aid station folks were amazing and I was really surprised that they would all call out my name as I arrived because of my green light.

There was another long stretch around mile 82 where I ran out of water again and slowed way, but I was still able to keep my position.   The course seemed long to me for a 100-miler.  I don't have proof, just my gut.   I'll have to take a closer look.   As dawn approached.  I reached the start/finish area and crossed the line in 23:29, in 8th place.  I was glad to score another sub-24 finish.  I was very surprised to get it because of these back-to-back finishes.

I think I came away with some new tricks that works for me in really charging up hills fast.   I look forward to further developing those skills because it made a huge difference to run up hills while everyone else around me was walking.



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