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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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After a week without running I had to test things yesterday and today.  I would rather do damage here at home than at ATY.  Still problems.  Pain keeps increasing with each week despite resting.  Mostly feels like a shin split.  Nearly pain free after 7 miles.   I just can't figure it out.   I'll probably still go but disappointing that I likely won't compete, probably will end up doing a lot of walking.

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Significant improvement.  Pain way down almost pain free.  I've concluded that I just have a bad shin split caused by the usual poor pronation or overcompensating which causes the Tibialis posterior muscle (inside calf attaches to shin) to inflame and pull on the the periosteum (membrane on the bone).  This is called periostitis.  This can lead to a stress fracture if you aren't careful.

For the past 24 hours I've iced the muscle and taken plenty of Aleve resulting in less pulling on that area.   I read through my running log in 2012 and the symtoms I'm having are far less severe without the bone aching I had then.  So I don't think the periositis has progressed to stress fracture yet, just probably microtears of the periosteum.  Less pulling on the membrane means less pain.  It does take a long time to heal but normally the pain calms down later in a workout.  So, I'll continue to let it calm down....hitting the pool tomorrow and will head out to Arizona this weekend.

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Mile swim this morning.  First time swimming in 20 months.  What is weird is that I have been suffering from neck/shoulder pain for four months when I turn my neck.  After the swim today, the pain is gone.  I guess the swimming motion somehow kicked something back in place and no more nerve pressure.  That's nice. Leg doing good today too.   Starting to think about Across the Years this weekend.

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Across the years starts for me on Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

Results: http://www.aravaiparunning.com/ultracast

Webcam: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aravaiparunning

Aravaipa Running Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aravaiparunning

Aravaipa Running Twitter: http://twitter.com/AravaipaRunning

#AcrossTheYears on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23acrosstheyears&src=typd

 

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