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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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Run up Little Si above North Bend, WA

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Race: Cascade Crest 100 (100 Miles) 28:12:31, Place overall: 61
Total Distance
101.00

Quick report.  This is my third running of Cascade Crest 100 in the Cascades of Washington, where I grew up skiing nearby.  The weather was cooler this year, nice.  The race begins with three miles of dirt road and then a tough climb.  I stayed up front but toward the end of the massive climb let dozens of younger runners go on ahead.  They were still pushing hard and my thoughts were, "Let's see if you can do that at mile 60!"  During a dirt road descent about mile 7, I decided to open up the speed, but then wasn't being careful enough and took a bad fall, gashing my forearm and bruising a quad muscle.  That took the wind out of my sails, but I still mostly kept pace with the other runners.  I got bandaged up at the next aid station, but the gashes still bled for several hours.  My leg got worse and soon I had difficulty bending my leg other than normal stride running.  That was concerning but I hoped it would settle down and it mostly did.

I kept pace with my 2011 pace, within minutes of it, even up to nine mintues ahead until about mile 80.  So I had a good race going.  My run through the 2.5 mile dark tunnel during the night was slower than usual because my achilles started to burn, so I backed off the normal sub-8:00 pace through there, but I still came into Hyak earliest than ever.

I was most pleased with me charge up the hill to Keechelus Ridge about mile 50.  All the other runners were hiking, but I ran like crazy, shocking them.  That is the value of not burning yourself out on the hills during the first quarter of the race.  I then blasted down the long dirt road to Kachess Lake.   The run through the "trail from hell" went OK, always longer than expected and was my slowest time through it, but still not bad.

Things fell about after that.  My stomach would not cooperate.  My theory is that I left my jacket behind in my drop bag at the aid station because dawn arrived and I got chilled, drawing blood away from the tummy.  At first I was charging up the next hill nicely but soon my stomach shut the running down as I was cold.  For the next several hours I suffered and my pace slowed.  By mile 89 I was 40 minutes behind my 2011 pace, but feeling better.  However, the leg and feet slowed me down the rest of the way.    I was glad to see the finish line arrive.  The last six miles were on the painful side.  

I really enjoyed the run, I'll return.

NB Leadvilles 10.5 Miles: 101.00
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