Finish of Nidhruvi – #8: 51 days + 09:54:59
Augu 8, 2013August 6
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Finish of Yuri – #7: 51 days + 04:22:11
Augu 8, 2013August 6
Straight To My Heart, by Utpal
Augu 8, 2013 August 6
“Thank you everybody for being here. This race wasn’t easy at all for me. I had some really difficult times. The Doctors didn’t know what to do with me and they were deciding at one time if I could even continue the race or not. But then Aparajita appears and he started to sing Sri Chinmoy’s songs to me. And they went straight into my heart. And from there a feeling of devotion, joy, and happiness started to come from within me, and it flooded my entire being completely. It was then that I understood that everything in my life was going to be really good.” read all 
Finish of Sarvagata – #6: 50 days + 14:33:11
Augu 8, 2013Finish of Surasa – #5: 50 days + 4:57:24
Augu 8, 2013Something Good, by Utpal
Augu 8, 2013 August 5
“I also don’t know what happened. I had no wings. I was not flying. It was running, really running.” On her last full day on the course yesterday Surasa ran an incredible 120 laps. An amount she has not done since way back on the 2nd day of the race. “I realized it when I heard 92 laps and I was looking at the clock and I thought, O My God. I am one hour ahead. It was so easy. It didn’t kill me. The only thing I did differently was I didn’t take so long of breaks. I took shorter breaks. 2 breaks of 25 minutes.” read all 
Great Finnish, by Utpal
Augu 8, 2013August 4
On Saturday morning when Ashprihanal arrived at the race he stepped up on the edge of the curb and stretched his calves, just as he has done every day here. He was directly in front of the numbers board as he did this. I could see that he was looking at the mileage he still had left to do. Speaking to no one in particular, he said, “the old Ashprihanal could do that”. What it showed was that he had 65 miles or 119 more laps to go. A number he had not met in more than 3 weeks. In my mind, the person I was looking at was just a slightly diminished version, of one of the greatest multi day runners of all time, Ashprihanal. One who was incredibly talented, certainly still capable of majestic flying around the course, and probably the guy who would not finish until sometime the next day. I was wrong. read all 
