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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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Good workout.  Ran a couple miles at 3/4th speed.  Minimal pain, less than 7 months ago.  I missed the Freedom run where I had three straight years of age group placing.  Oh well.  Daughter and son-in-law ran, but I avoided it, too tempting and I'm not ready for full speed yet.

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Rec center workout, tough ellitical.   Added inclined treadmill, 12:00 pace at 20%.  Worked pretty well, not much pain.

In the afternoon, I went for my first "trail run" in five months.  I ran up to the place where the fire started.  The place is such a shooting mess.  I'll have to get a picture.   Because that area was only burned in the very beginning on day 1, the heat wasn't very hot.  Some trees in that are were saved and most the bushes had their tops burned off to the ground but their roots are still living.  Green shoots are coming up.  Ant hills still have ants.  In other areas burned on day 2, the desert floor is so sortched, there is no trace of bush stumps, no green shoots, only ashes and death.

I ran five miles at average slow pace of 16:30, but it is a start.  My top pace for a little while was 9:30.   Near the end the leg was sore along the fracture line, so that is the limit. The soreness was gone in a couple hours, so that is good.

I'm encouraged.  For recreational runners, a 5-mile run around there and back would have worn them out.  I didn't feel tired at all, so much of the fitness is still there.

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Tough workout, but these are getting easier.  Ended out with three miles out doors.  Soreness afterwards for a few hours but then went away.

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