Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

25JUN

“I don’t want to have a blister and this morning I felt something. So I wanted to prevent it, as much as possible.”  Sometimes precious moments take place here at the race that continually prove again and again just how divine humanity can be. How much more can be achieved through oneness instead of competition. Earlier Sarvagata had mentioned to Atmavir that he was concerned about his foot.  None of the runners has much time to spare,  particularly in those hectic minutes before the start.  Yet just the same Atmavir came over and gave him a special jar of cream and showed him how to use it.  Now as he applies it to his foot he tells me, that Atmavir was, “very kind and brought me the cream.” Read more

24JUN

“I left at 11:30.  I could have done 2 or 3 more laps, but for me it was more important to go home and get a little more sleep.  And that helped so much.  It was the first night that I could sleep for a full 3 1/2 hours. Yesterday I had my best mileage day but I really felt that I needed a little bit more sleep. I did 113 laps.” read all

Archived – click Post Title to view all. link to Pranjal video diary Hi everyone, this this the end of day 10. On the background you could see video that I took yesterday. Enjoy! In 10 days we’ve passed first 1000k – 4000k to go. Almost there – you can say. We had another quite tough day because of the weather.  Again it was 34C with very high humidity. Two days in a raw with high temperature and humidity – really hard. You are losing a lot of water. At the evening I just realized that I was heavily dehydrated. I tried to drink as much as possible but that was not enough – in two such hot days you just can’t get it in your body in a normal way. Every lap I was drinking about 0.5 litter and was doing that for 3 hours. And then I started feeling that water balance is better. That didn’t affect my running much, but I realized that it will help because I felt tired. I had a pretty good morning and afternoon. In the evening as I said I felt tired, fortunately when I drank a lot I was good again. At the end I made 118 laps, which is really good for me and I was really happy. Atmavir had a very good day – he did the best mileage from all the people. Vasu had a slower day. Ashprihanal had a hard day – at the evening he told me that feeling sick. Yuri – same machine. Going same pace from morning till the…

“When I came the first time I had expectations.  I didn’t know what this was all about.  Each year that I have come after that is like creating another book, or adding more pages in this book.  For me it is a process which is continuing in my case.  Once I started I want to finish, to read the book until the very end.” Read more

Archived – click Post Title to view all. Hi everyone. This is the end of day 9. It was hot, humid and wet. From the morning it was really humid and hot. It was getting only worse, by noon it was really hard. Everybody tried to do his/her best. Then about 2 pm it’s started to rain suddenly. Nobody expected it. It was raining for about an hour. It really helped, because it cleared the weather, humidity went dawn and it was much easier to run. For me it was may be first day when I could keep energy at the evening and run – I was not 100% dead. I did 117 laps – good day for me. Atmavir had another good day. Of course during humidity he was suffering, because he is very sensitive ti heat, but he did something like 124 laps. I haven’t seen Vasu the whole day – he was running in his own pace. He looks good. Ashprihanal looked today much better and was running better – he is now ok. For Yuri it was hot in the morning, but it seems that didn’t affect him. Sarvagata had a starting shint split but after lunch time bandage disappeared from his leg, probably it was not that serious. Surasa was experiencing hard times during the heat but at the evening she run much better. Sopan did his own usual pace but in the evening he looks really suffering – was pushing until the end. Nidrhuvi stayed till the midnight and has to push to do her mileage. Ananda-Lahari ran good in the…