Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Interview with Asprihanal right before his finish

I was caught in the rain, I tried to get shelter under a tree. Can you imagine: thunderstorm around, this tree is useless. And out of the blue, a car stopped behind me, through the opened window a hand gave me a plastic raincoat, – Take it, boy. Take it. I said, – Thank, you. But while I tried to figure out how to put it on, the rain was over and certainly I got soaked to the skin. People happen to be kind here.

Archived – click Post Title to view all. 44th day. At 6 am it was 63 miles to cover for Asprihanal to get the finish point. He is going to do it around 10 pm. Closer to the end, I’ll try to get this flying Finn to talk and I am going to interview him. Today is Parvati’s singing group anniversary. When Sri Chinmoy gave them a new name, it was Enthusiasm awakeners. As I’ve already told you, they get together and sang for runners every day at 6.40. It is the second day in a row that Parvaty has been celebrating this jubilee. And they prepared gifts for each runner. Today we got a wonderful hat with a sign “3100 mile runner powered by grace and enthusiasm”, a beautiful running T-shirt and a lot of tasty things. It’s a real holiday. Yesterday New York reminded us what thunderstorms are like. In the afternoon we had two strong thunderstorms here – everything was flooded with water, branches were broken by wind. And it lasted for 5 min. Once I was running along a highway and suddenly I realized that I didn’t see anything ahead of me, kind of a void. Then I understood that it was a rain wall and it moved towards me. I just thought that there was no place to hide and was overwhelmed. We got that fierce storm for the first time, but it was a warm thunderstorm though. It was fun, but I was wet from top to toe. Then one hour later, another thunderstorm burst once again. 5 minutes and it was over, sun was shining, just we were wet to the skin. Another story was…