Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Jokes, day, 25 On the highway, one of the bus drivers beeped to me. The bus came closer to the sidewalk, the driver opened the doors and asked me: -Good morning! My name is Willis. And what is your name? – Stutisheel. – What is the race here? I showed him my T-shirt with the 3100 miles written on it. It seemed that his mind wasn’t getting it. – Why? It was the time for me to think a little. All I could to say was: – We are running for Harmony. He asked: – Who is the leader, the founder? – Sri Chinmoy. – Is he from India? – Yes, from India. – Well, then God bless! And he took off . Americans are very sociable people. One more story. Yesterday, Volodya wanted to visit Kaushal, but there was a quite a line to see him. Shuprabha was there twice. So, Volodya got to see him only by 9 pm. Kaushal is a really good doctor. He has a huge collection of Vedic medicine, aromatic oils and so on. After his half-hour rest at Kaushal’s we run with Volodya and I ask him: – How did you like it? What did he do with you? Volodya answered: – The impression is as though it had snowed. – Oh, dear! Snow in midsummer! Have you smoked something? – No, he just gave me something to sniff up. After this Voloday was running around like a scalded cat. Kaushal even went out to the course and said: Do not hurry, do not hurry! You’ve got to run for a long time!

Archived – click Post Title to view all. Yesterday, I run another 65 miles. I was able to do more, but in the  afternoon I felt my left tendon starting to pull. It was because of deformation of my shoes. Now a pair of sneakers is finished in two days, and I start to feel pain in muscles, although sneakers are brand new – only soles are erased. Pranab tried to fix the problem with the glue rubber on the sole and mastered a new job. He uses the tires to fix the shoes. Now we are wearing Continental Super Sport tyres. It contains metallic fibers. It takes longer to erase it than to erase the original shoe. But nevertheless shoes lose its form. As most people, I step with a little inclination and all shoes in some time “warp”. So, yesterday it happened that the rubber was ok, but my shoe is out of its form, and I felt discomfort with my leg. I felt the familiar signs that it was high time I had changed running shoes, but then I decided to wait a little bit, as I wanted to save money. I changed them in the evening at 5-6 pm, and gradually it was getting more painful to walk. Still I was able to run, but to walk (to make a turn and so on) was very painful. I had to pirouette: to stop, to turn square angle and only after that to go on. But cabbage-therapy during the night and some other things made…

A blind man with his seeing eye-dog comes in the store. Suddenly he takes the dog by its tail and swings around it above his head. A scared shopkeeper asks: “May I help you?” The man answers: “No, thanks. I am just looking around”.

23rd day, 4.17 pm On last lap, Grahak passed the race midpoint - 1550 miles. He is the second runner who has passed this mark. Ashprihanal did this several days ago. So we’ve run half a race. As Ashprihanal says, the race goes downhill now, although the other runners have to still run and run to their midpoint, but the race quickly progresses. Both Ashprihanal and Grahak have shown their best time. Yesterday I did my 66 miles and the day before yesterday I had 65 miles. So I am running quite smoothly. The weather indulges us – the average temperature is 27-28 degrees above zero, sunny, and dry. Life is beautiful!