June 28: More in the Heart (Utpal’s blog)
In all the many years I have chased after Ashprihanal Aalto while he has been running a multi day race I have never ever gotten even close. Whether it be dashing around a one mile loop in Flushing Meadow or even now while he runs the short easily accessible half mile block in Jamaica Queens.
It is not that he is unapproachable, or that he runs too fast (which is still plenty fast for me). It is just that there is something particularly elusive if not incomprehensible about this 45 year old running phenom from Helsinki. Who will without question set a new record this summer when he completes the Self Transcendence 3100 mile race for the 14th time.
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