Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Author: Utpal For the 10 runners taking part in the Self Transcendence race each new day now, and each additional lap is starting to blend and blur into the immense vision of what they are attempting to do here. It is such a massive effort and an undertaking of such proportions that the enormity of it, in its entirety, is really incomprehensible. Only the present moment can remain distinct, and briefly held. Yesterday is gone just as what happened an hour ago. Tomorrow will come of course but all they really have is the precious now. Read more here

Author: Utpal Yesterday Pranjal passed a significant personal milestone that tells an awful lot about this incredible Slovakian runner and just why he has been so successful here at the 3100 mile race. Yesterday it turns out was the 3rd anniversary of when he first started his, never miss a day, running streak. After completing the Self Transcendence race here in 2009 he hit upon the inspiration that if he simply kept running, at least 2 miles a day, he was almost certain to get better, and he was right. His strategy, which is a simple one, is one of the keys as to why he has improved so much. In fact from the very first year he ran here, which was 2005, he has transcended himself each year. Now, after 4 days of running he is 4 miles ahead of last years pace. This of course is a razor thin margin but if he manages to keep it up, it will mean he will once again improve his time, in this his 7th year in a row of running the 3100 mile race. Read more

Author: Utpal In many ways each time a runner participates in the 3100 mile race it is like they are starting a new life.  Even the most talented runner however really has no idea what this lifetime here will reveal to them.  One can hope for days filled with joy and satisfaction but like most lives this is not always the case.  Lessons are learned both small and grand, sweet and painful.  Experience are gathered here that are either celebrated or endured and everything in between.  Ones that can never be gained on any of life’s other potential paths. True, all you have to do here is run, but the obstacles one meets here along the way cannot ever be side stepped or avoided.  Pain and fatigue will be relentless opponents and one must never let down their guard for even a moment.  Read more

By Utpal, http://perfectionjourney.org/ When one decides to run the 3100 mile race it quickly becomes apparent that from the moment you take your very first step here that suddenly you are entering a very public arena.  You may have trained for months alone on soft mountain trails and felt the sweet stillness of nature comforting you with its beauty.  Perhaps you ran care free without any problem intruding into your life and felt contentment and peace in abundant measure.  This world is available here as well on the concrete loop here in Queens but it is an aspect of the race that does not come to all and never to all, all the time. read more

Last minutes… in 12 laps Volodya will finish his first 3100 mile race! Click to listern interview

A few laps before Grahak’s finish, Stutisheel is talking to him Click here to listern interview

Interview with Asprihanal right before his finish