Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Archived – click Post Title to view all. Day, 31. Some minutes after 7 pm. The flight is super stable. The last few days, I have even increased my speed and I feel so good. Yesterday I did 65 miles. I feel a great potential. So, the most interesting things are ahead. Ashprihanal’s running is getting better and better. It has stabilized now. Let us say, he has recovered from the shock and left that experience behind. Pavol is doing great! Step by step, he is getting better also. And there is a big hope that he will finish before Shuprabha. Pradan has been guiding me since 2004. I pick up all my vitamins following his recommendations and they work 100 %. We have a kind of test question. He asks me, “How much?” I have to give him a figure on the scale from 1 to one hundred to describe my condition. Yesterday, when he showed up I said,”97!” Pradan said,”Ok, it means that it’s time for me to go back home to Chicago”. I answered, “ Pradan, may be you need some help?” The following story could suit a black humor column. All these years, there have been two dry trees on the route side. Today workers came and cut them very quickly. There were no problems with the first tree. We ran by it quickly. But it was quite interesting with the second one. Volodya and me passed it by, but behind us was Purna-Samarpan. I noticed that they had almost stubbed it, and it looked…

Archived – click Post Title to view all. 29th day 17.24 pm Today the impossible has happened – I overslept! I was wondering all the time how it could be possible to be late for the start, and now it has happened to me for the first time in 6 years. But I slept like a baby! I was having such sweet dreams that I failed to hear the alarm-clock going off, nothing! And when it was 5min to 6am and Rupantar was pounding at my door, I woke up! Oh God, it was already daylight! First Rupantar got Ashprihanal to the start and then he came for me. As a result, I began at 6.20am instead of 6am, lost some laps, but surprisingly, there was no rush. It was peaceful. Today I am running a lit bit faster, so I am going to catch up on mileage. Another proof that nothing is impossible. Never say “never”! Asprihanal had an unusual start as well. Right from the starting line, he headed for a toilet and then to a van and didn’t show up for an hour. It turned out that he had got a stomach upset and nausea. He could hardly walk. Then Kaushal and Kritagyata were called, and they decided to get Asprihanal to doctor Kumar. And this is the first time in 9 years of Asprihanal’s participating in the Race that he has been taken from the course. It turned out that he had got acidity, so he has to be careful with what he eats and drinks….

Ananda Lahari was running in a white sport suit, a white hat, and dark sunglasses. A Jeep beeps at him and pulls over. A woman appears from behind the window and shouts very emotionally,” Michael! Michael Jackson!” Ananda Lahari takes his glasses off and says, “Sorry”.

Archived – click Post Title to view all. 28th day, 12.28 pm Suprabha just completed the half of the distance – 1550 miles, faster then last year as well. Her running is surprisingly steady. And it means that the race really over passed its midpoint, because it will stop after Suprabha’s finish. In the beginning, when Sri Chinmoy founded the 3,100-mile race, there was a strict limit of 51 days, but then, when I began to participate, Sri Chinmoy let runners finish within 55,56, or 58 days. Now race directors are more rigid and have a secret limit, i.e. Suprabha’s finish. I mean the race is over when Shuprabha is done, and those who are late, so be it. Now Pavol and Purna Samarpan are behind Suprabha. Purna-Samarpan is suffering the full pleasure of his first race, his liver likes going on vacation, so toxins remain in his body and as a result – problems with his legs(they as flexible as a piece of wood), and with his spine. But he is still moving. Yesterday I had kind of a slow day – 58 miles. And actually today’s beginning of the day also was slow, I would say even hard. But then the wave came and it got easier. I began listening to my favorite books of Sri Chinmoy: The Tree of Life, Peace, and Opportunity. And it helped me a lot. I believe that gradually I’ll get back to my true speed. Kaushal was so inspired by our race, that he changed his ticket. To our great joy, he is…

Archived – click Post Title to view all. Day, 25, 6.30 pm A few laps before, I paid a visit to Kaushal and he told me the secret why at every race I have difficulties during a full moon period. The matter is that today is the second day of the full moon. Yesterday, I ran quite well and today in the morning everything started well, but then it was getting harder and harder to run. Even to smile was difficult. I can not say that this day is totally ruined, but I began to feel worse and was all the time waiting for the evening when Kaushal would come. While he was examining me that half an hour, I absolutely forgot that it is my 25th day on the course. I was just in Heaven. He is so great!

It took him 5 minutes to understand that I had problems with renal functions, which is coming from full moon. My mother had weak kidneys. For sure, every full moon on the race is the most difficult time for me. Kaushal said it was not a big problem and he knew how to solve it. Then I had an aromatherapy session and pointillage. I was getting better right when he was working. He quickly fixed me up with  homeopathy and something more. So, he has a lot of secrets, and it is clear that he is a highly skilled specialist. When I was leaving him I was grinning like a Cheshire cat, I was already feeling well. Although I…