June 27th, Jowan: Photos day 14
June 27, 2015
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June 26th, Jowan: Photos day 13
June 26, 2015
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June 26, Utpal: Everybody Has a Journey
June 26, 2015Each of the 12 runners here has their own unique vision of what the race means to them and their own distinct voice in expressing what it is they see and feel and experience here. Building this vision and this story with each new lap and each new day they run around the course.
Every word or thought that they might share has incredible value and potency. Already each runner has run close to, or already exceeded 700 miles.
“Sometimes I am listening to a song and I feel as though it is inside me. You are the song. When you feel that you are the song, it is amazing.” 
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June 25th, Jowan: Photos day 12
June 25, 2015
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June 25, Utpal: Just Go Forward
June 25, 2015Archived – click Post Title to view all. “I am good. A little bit slower this morning. I just go without ever pace I am able to do. The main thing is to just go forward.” Nirbhasa says this with the same cheerful lightness and enthusiasm that has categorized everything he has said and done for more than 11 days. In that period he has run further in time and longer in distance, than this 35 year old jack of all trades from Ireland has ever done before in his life. He, like all the runners in the 3100 mile race though still have a very very long way yet to go. Last night when he left the course to grab a few hours of sleep he went home on his bicycle with the scoreboard showing 710 miles beside his name. His previous best of 702 had been accomplished more than a year ago at the 10 day race in Fushing Meadow. Nirbhasa calls pushing beyond his previous marks of 10 days and 702 miles as, “they are nice little milestones along the way.” “The main thing is to stay in the moment. At this stage it is still quite early. If you think about what you have left to do. It is kind of too much.” I mention to Nirbhasa that both he and Kaneenika are venturing into new realms running the 3100 for the first time. The two of them had run the 10 day race for a few years. “It is a completely different race. The surface is one thing. On…
June 24th, Jowan: Photos day 11
June 24, 2015
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June 24, Upal: Inwardly Happy
June 24, 2015Archived – click Post Title to view all. When Kaneenika started running this morning at the 3100 mile race she was taking her first steps into uncharted territory for her. Many times she has run the 10 day race in Flushing Meadow but for her today is the start of day 11. A new milestone in an exemplary and distinguished career of this 45 year old runner from Bratislava Slovakia. When I approached her to speak this morning I asked if I could run a lap with her. She laughed, “I have run many laps.” As of this morning she had run around the block 1088 times in the previous 10 days. I first ask a typical and quite possibly a rude question. Is she happy? From the vantage point of the sidelines Kaneenika has been radiant every day since she started. Her face brightened almost always by a gentle clear smile. I add as well to that question that it has to be hard to be as happy as she appears to be. “It is always like that during these races.” I am curious just how different it must be for her here rather than the one mile loop in Flushing Meadow where she has run for so many Spring races. “I have been feeling it since day 3……..or maybe from the beginning of the race. Even though I have had experiences from the shorter races. This is just so different.” “I never really wanted to do this race before. Believe it or not. It just happened last year, that I got…
