July 24, Utpal: Constant Blessings
This is the 13th time that 44 year old Finnish runner Ashprihanal has run the hardest, longest race in the world. The Self Transcendence race record books are full of his accomplishments, but today he has set a very unique record when he won the Self Transcendence 3100 mile race and set a new incredible record. One that was apparently years in the making but today took just 40 days, 9 hours, and 6 seconds to accomplish.
In the background Sahishnu, one of the race directors calls out. “You did 3 kilometers a day more than Madhupran did.”
“That is good.” Ashprihanal’s time is 23 hours faster than Madhupran when he set the record in 2006. Recently he sent this message to Ashprihanal
Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk
When asked if he had been thinking about the record from the first day, “absolutely. It was definitely my plan, right from the start. I had a funny experience my first day. Mdhupran’s first day was 85 miles. My best first day so far was 90 miles. So I was thinking I would do between 85 and 90 miles the first day.”
“Than some voice in my head said, stop that false modesty, and so then I did 94 miles. I stopped thinking about what I was doing, and just went for it. It worked.”
