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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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Recovered from the fun weekend run.  The leg came out a little sore, but coming down.   I made an appointment with the ortho doctor to get x-rays on Thursday.  We'll see how it has healed up.

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Power walk during lunch.  I've totally recovered from Wasatch pacing. Wow, almost pain-free in the leg.  Much better than last week.   We'll see.  I'll get x-rays tomorrow.

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X-rays were encouraging.   The Dr. could still see the faint fracture line but said he would not classify it as "the dreaded black line" when there is non-union going on.  He told me that I probably should expect some continued pain for the next six months.  If after that, still a problem, come back in for another x-ray.   The stress fracture and healing around it is massive.  The area really lights up on the x-ray.  He even called in his PA to see the x-ray, calling it "classic" stress fracture.

So, I'm not going to worry as much anymore.  I'll still be careful, but I think I can start kicking it back in.   He asked me if I was running again and I did admit that I ran a 100-miler a couple weeks ago.  He laughed and shook his head, but didn't seem very concerned.   I said I had run 57 miles at Wasatch 100 and was left with a little pain.  The PA chimed in and said he would a ton of pain.  OK, so I'll put all this within propective and just continue to be careful, but not worry as much.

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Ran up above the Saratoga Springs flood area.  Wow!  Those homes didn't have a chance.  The downpour hit a slope and everything funneled down across a very wide area to those homes.  The slope of that valley shows that for centuries water as always funnelled down there and then they build homes in the path of the water.  Bad place.  There are several other areas in a similar situation.  A lot more needs to be done to protect those homes that were just put in bad places.   The water and mud tore up massive new washes, very deep.   It distroyed all the roads and trails in that area.   The powerline road has kind of been filled back in so trucks and get through.   Just amazing.   I suspect even without the fire that homes would of still been flooded, minus all that mud.

The little run left the leg sore again Oh well.  I know it isn't in the bone, it is in the surrounding "cast" that the leg has built around the fracture area.  Tendons pull at that area and makes it sore.   I'll just have to live with it.   I can block out that kind of pain just fine as long as I know I'm not doing any damage.

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