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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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Rest and recovery.  The worst part is my sinuses...all messed up, probably will go into a bad cold.  I can jog down stairs with minimal pain.  Going over the race in my head makes me very determined to do better at the Bear 100 in a 11 days.  I didn't give Wasatch 100 my best effort, so I need to redeem myself.

Very funny thing today.  On my phone, I retrieved a message from last week.  A guy found my lost camera in the Uintas.  I lost it on Dead Horse Pass nearly a month ago and even ran up there again to search for it once I discovered it was missing.  Somehow by looking at the pictures on the camera, this guy figured out I was the owner!   I had joked with my buddies that this might happen.  I don't know details because I also got his phone mail.

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Looking for runners interested in pacing at Bear 100 a week from Friday up Logan Canyon.  Let me know if you are interested.

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I'm seeking volunteers to help out with my race next month, Pony Express Trail 50 and 100-miler.  This is out in the west desert of Utah on the historic trail.  See www.ponyexpress100.org 

I need to find some volunteers to help with checking in runners, directing traffic at the start, an aid station at the 50-mile finish, timing, runner tracking, cheering, etc.   It is on UEA weekend, so the kids are out of school that Friday.  Bring them out.  This is a family event because each runner must have a crew car driving along with them.  So it is pretty crazy to see first-hand how someone runs 100-miles.   Let me know if you want to join in the fun.   October 15-16.

 

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Did a recovery run.  Ran up Timp. Took it relatively easy but felt fully recovered, no ill effects left over from Wasatch. No soreness, no fatigue.  Felt like I could run up hill for a long time.  Legs didn't feel heavy.   Reached the top in 2:14.  I started around 2:30 a.m.  The trail was clogged with college kids.  I counted 80 on the way up.  I passed everyone on the trail reaching the summit first except for a couple guys sleeping in the summit hut.

The crowd this week on the trail seemed unusal.  They didn't seem to know what to do when a trail runner approaches.  Perhaps these are a bunch of college kids hiking for the first time.  But it was a real problem.  As I would approach, they would see me but not know what to do.  They are in the middle of the trail, taking up the entire width.  They then figure out that they need to step over to the side but they try think they can get in a few last steps in the middle of the trail before I arrive but they can't.  So I either have to screech to a halt or almost plow into them.  Oh well.  I was considering doing a double today but the trail was so clogged, that I didn't want to go up again.   I took the steep short-cuts going up and down to bypass several groups.

There were another 50 kids going up as I was coming down....and another 50 in the parking lot waiting for dawn.  Busy day on the mountain!  My round trip was 3:54, nice and easy.  I tried to keep the pace slow enough to avoid face plants, but I went down once with one mile to go.  Didn't scape anything or get hurt.  Only go dirty. 

Love the comments from the "kids" on the trail.  "You're a freaking animal."  I resist the urge to reply, "I'm just an elderly 52-year-old man going out for a morning stroll."  The funny comments are when they thing something is wrong, that I'm running down fast to get some help, or some sort of crazy ambulence with a green light.  "What's wrong?"  Today I didn't say anything, but usually I say, "She's going to blow!  The mountain is going to blow!"

It was a nice morning run.  I'm feeling ready for Bear 100 on Friday.  Still interested in someone pacing me Friday afternoon in Logan Canyon.   No biggy, just helps save several minutes and gives you a chance to taste a 100-miler.   I don't usually use pacers, but with local races it is fun to share the experience.

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