Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Hi everyone, Pranjal again. This is the end of day 5. I had a pretty tough day. Since morning my legs were pretty heavy and I need to push myself very hard. I keep pretty good pace all day but it was really really hard. I ran until 22:30 and then was walking till the midnight.  I did something like 112 laps, which is not bad. This is part of the race. Body is started to adjust to this tough things. All the others looked really strong, nobody have main injuries. But it is still early days of the race. Atmavir had some crisis in the morning. It took him about 2 hours of slow running and then he was running fast again. Vasu as usual was running very fast. Yuri is interesting, because he is not running that fast, but all time on the track and could do a lot of miles. Surasa looks very strong, amazing pace, very fast and still cheerful.  Sarvagata is still warming up. Baladev still keeping a very good pace. Shopan is doing well. Ashprihanal getting stronger and stronger.  Nidhruvi is very determined and strong, trying to do 60 miles per day. Ananda-Lahari started a little bit slower in comparison to other years. Sarah having an interesting style, sometimes she is having more brakes, but when she run – she run very fast. She is fastest on the track. This evening she was sprinting. She is in good shape. See you tomorrow.

JUN 18

3 years ago in 2010, when Surasa arrived at JFK airport in New York, she was asked by the Immigration officer what was the purpose of her visit to America. She told the man that she had come to run the Self Transcendence 3100 mile race and would spend every day, that summer while visiting, running . He was surprised of course and said, “you must be very strong.” Surasa a veteran of many many multi day races remembers that she was a bit shocked by his words. For she did not think of herself as strong or particularly special. Perhaps there was part of her that simply thought that it wasn’t such a miraculous thing for one to run 3100 miles. For she simply felt so strongly deep within herself that this was the thing she was supposed to do and that was that. Read more

Archived – click Post Title to view all. This is the end of Day 4. It was quite a good day for me, at least except last 3 hours. I ran out of the energy and was pushing myself till the end. In the morning I was a little bit sleepy, probably because of the digestion which is not 100 precent ok. This year we have quite a lot strong runners. Vasu is looking very strong at his second race – he is still running all the hills. Atmavir is also doing pretty good so far. Surasa is very strong – she is always happy. And she could run for a long time pretty fast. Sarah, although she is not making many miles, she is looking very strong. If she will be 100% ok with the foot, she could do a lot of miles. Baladev is doing very good in comparison with other years. I was not seeing Sopan often this day, probably we were running on the opposite sides of the track – it happens here. Although the loop is not long, but you could see no particular runner for hours and hours. Sarvagata is starting slowly to speed up. Usually at the beginning of the race he is warming up. Ashprihanal is back on the track with his full speed. Nidrhuvi is always very steady. She is not very fast, but probably still faster then me – she could do good mileage because she could maintain steady pace all day. Ananda-Lahari now is focused at 60…

Archived – click Post Title to view all. This is the end of day 3. It was quite interesting day, at least for me. In the morning I was still suffering from yesterday, because I was not eating all day. So I felt a little energy and started to run, but energy gone in 2 hours. I started walking again and push myself to eat. After few more hours I got some strength back, but it was flowing slowly. I was pushing myself to eat, although my stomach was not accepting much. By the evening time I felt energy back. The weather was also interesting – hot in the morning 28C, in the afternoon started raining and it was continuing until 10 pm. It was not thunderstorm but it was raining all the time. Will see how it will be with our feet tomorrow. All the runners looked really, really good. After yesterday walking Ashprihanal was running all day and did pretty good mileage. Sarvagata the same. I guess Atmavir did one of the best mileages today. Almost all the runners ran until the end – till midnight, which is not really usual. Sopan was doing his own pace. Vasu was running pretty fast, I guess he will run even faster. Surasha looking really strong this year, she was passing me even in the evening when I started running.  Baladev said that he feeling a little bit tired. Yuri – same perfect running. Sarah, in spite of continuing problem with the feet was doing really good and in the evening…

11 pm Day was tough. Yesterday vomiting was fun, but today it wasn’t. I couldn’t keep anything in my stomach. I was not really eating. Only at evening I could eat something so that would stay in me. Because it was not enough energy most of the time I was walking. It looks like everybody else is much stronger – they are running, except Ashprihanal. He was also walking. Sarah in spite having problem with foot was running like anything whole day. Vasu also – I think he is steal leading the course. Atmavir is also really fast. Ananda-Lahari is feeling much better than day before. Baladev was running all day, only at the evening he start walking. My day was really tough – even Ananda –Lahari took video of me falling asleep while walking. But because of my hard day everybody was trying to help me Girls are really fast – Surasa, Nidrhuvi was running all day.