Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Archived – click Post Title to view all. After yesterday’s hot and sultry day , when it was around 32-34 with high humidity which we survived, someone successfully, and some not so (Atmavir and Ananda Lahari, for example, walked all day, I managed to keep running) today is a different picture. Ashprihanal and Igor, as if nothing happened, have been running at their usual pace. Sarvagata slowed down, but almost everybody has been running today – including Ananda Lahari, Pradeep, and Atmavir. Pradeep, incidentally, is very stable and it looks like he is gaining momentum. He is a growing fast runner. As it turned out, he was at my house in Kiev in 2001 with the European World Harmony Run team. When they were in Kiev, they stayed with me, and I absolutely do not remember it. But he remembers:) Purna-Samarpan is a trendsetter today – he cut off his T-shirt, so as to leave a well-ventilated top with the stomach, and rushed in the morning, because the day was supposed to be hot. It was hot and we were saved only due to the wind. So throughout the day he’s been running in his vest in which he put ice bags and looked like a terminator. It’s a special vest, which makes one a few pounds heavier, but it cools very well. So he has developed a policy – he runs fast in the morning, walks in the afternoon and runs fast at nighttime. He’s got good mileage, too. I had a good morning, much better than yesterday, and in…

Archived – click Post Title to view all.  Yesterday something very unusual happened. To begin with, Sarvagata ran 80.6 miles (147 laps) and I’d say this is the level of  Madupran, the world record holder. Of course, only he could run more than anybody else, but Sarvagata is a rookie! Think of that! Wow, amazing. Yesterday most of us had a good day.  Shrasa surprised us all – she did 115 laps (63 miles) for the first time and at 11pm went home to rest.  Pradeep did 66 miles and Purna-Samarpan did 65 miles. In general, everybody rocks! I had quite a decent mileage, but since Independence Day I haven’t been able to pick up the pace to do 120 laps. We’ll wait and see. This morning, let’s face it, it has been hard, and I see that my pace is slow, and everybody is moving slowly. I even started looking for the gun to finish these torments:) … And here we meet with Igor, and he says: ‘Stutisheel, I can no more. I’m tired of bearing it. “And when I said that he had only 2 weeks to go, he said, ‘This is too much. I’ll die sooner than that. ” Igor, well, bad news is that at 3,100-mile race nobody has died. So in your case, the only way to stop running is to finish.  We smirked a little and then I took a book of jokes, and we were cracking.  Igor remembered a joke about a moose:) A moose walking in the woods gets wounded by hunters….

9.50pm A few laps ago, Purna-Samarpan did 1,550 miles and he still cherishes the hope to finish the race before the cutoff (day 52). He is running faster now and did 116 laps yesterday. His spirits are also fine. Which you cannot say of Ananda-Lahari – he’s been walking for the past 2 weeks and something is not working out for him this year. In a few miles, Ashrihanal is going to cross the 2,000 mile mark which is pretty decent. My 3-day eye epic has ended today. My common sense took the best of me and I asked Maral to have a look at my eye. There was a grain of sand stuck. He took it away and I am feeling much better. The eye is red still, but these are just aftereffects which will disappear soon. One can only wonder that a tiny particle can give one so much trouble and get one to the edge. Our rockets Igor and Sarvagata are still flying. Looks like Sarvagata decided to catch up with Ashprihanal. For the last several days, he’s been doing 140 laps (76 miles). Stay tuned!