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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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Total Distance
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New Balance Leadville Miles: 13.00Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 150.00Altra Torin Miles: 3.00
Total Distance
155.00

Ran Across the Years again.  This time the 72 hour race.  In previous 48-hour races I clocked 187, 175, and 135. So with the extra day it should be easy to reach 200, right?   Not so fast.  This year I had lots of issues to deal with...my bad leg was a constant worry....should I push it, should I hold back.  On day 2 I had some lung problems, bad congestion and the lungs would get very sore if I tried to run fast.  Day 3 I had bad back soreness.   The entire time I had bad quad soreness.   So it was quite the challenge.   I started off fine and for the first 20 mile was in first place.  Buddy Mike Miller than passed me but I still stayed in 2nd place well into day 2.  My 50 time was bad, 10:10.  The heat was despetive and slowed me down greatly.  I reached 100 in a slow 25:05.  In past years I would reach that between 19:40 and 22 hours.  Nights were the best for me.  At times I would by far be the speediest on the quiet track at night.  Day 2 was a struggle with some long rests.  I only ran about 40 miles on Day 2. At 136 miles I was seriously going to quit because i saw swellness in the leg.   But I went back out, tested things out and did more careful running.  But I really could only run 7-8 miles at a time.  Sleep deprivation was bad.  On Day 3, I shut it down for the heat of the day, washed up and tried to sleep.  Didn't sleep much.  As dusk arrived I went back out and ran some another pretty fast 15 miles.  But by 8 p.m. I could tell that I was thrashed, painful slow walking and I felt very sick.   I drove to a motel very beat up and slept for the night.  I woke a 2 a.m., got up to test the legs and feet but rejected wishes to go back to the track.  At 5 a.m. I did it again and this time felt much better.  By 6 a.m. I was again running fast on the track.  I did another nine miles until it was too painful and then quit an hour early with 163 miles total for 14th place.  Not bad, but I know I can do much, much better if I didn't have the issues I did.   I had a great time running with friends.

New Balance Leadville Miles: 5.00Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 150.00
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Final miles for across the years....recording them for 2014 miles.

New Balance Leadville Miles: 8.00Altra Torin Miles: 1.00
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Recovering well.  Still sleeping a lot, but the muscle soreness is just about gone.  However, the right leg....it feels injured but not broken.  It appears I've injured the patch that formed over my break two years ago...pretty much what I thought.  I went out for a short walk/jog and it all feels somewhat loose and some pain.   So, the big question is, will I see daily improvement or only weekly improvement.  No pain at all in the left leg.   If my right leg felt that way, I would already be running again.  Looks like there won't be much running for the next few weeks.   The pool is going to get some waves in it.

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Total Distance
168.00
New Balance Leadville Miles: 13.00Hoka Rapa Nui Miles: 150.00Altra Torin Miles: 3.00
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