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Day 3 Results

June 15, 2010

Day 3 Results, miles

Asprihanal Aalto 68 Total 226

Pranjal Milovnik 67 Total 217

Petr Spacil 69 Total 216

Vladimir Balatsky 67 Total 214

Pushkar C Mullauer 63 Total 203

Pavol Saraz 64 Total 200

Stutisheel Lebedyev 66 Total 198

Ananda-Lahari Zuscin 63 Total 197

Surasa Maier 60 Total 189

Dharbhasana Lynn 59 Total 184

Purna-Samarpan Querhammer 55 Total 183

Day 3, Pictures

June 15, 2010

More photos by Jowan are available here

3d Day Joke

June 15, 2010

Surasa is running with a cabbage wrap around her ankle to cure her shin splints. She stops at a fence to do some stretching-up. Ashprihanal runs by and comments: – I wouldn’t advise you to do so much stretching – ?? – In this way you can attract rabbits. It would make it worse

Day 3

June 15, 2010

Archived – click Post Title to view all. It’s the third day of the race. 9.23 am. It’s a little hotter today. The sky is clear which promises a sunny day. As usual, all the runners started at 6am and by 12pm they will have tried to do their utmost. On the second day at about 6pm I felt that I didn’t have to struggle so much and it was easier to run. There’s less pain and pushing. It felt as if I had passed a certain barrier. I still need another two or three days for my legs to get adjusted. Yesterday when I was leaving for home at 11.30 pm, they were aching. The mind though is absolutely lucid. I felt good after the whole day. I went to bed at 0.30am and was up at 5.10am. I woke up totally energized. Yesterday I made 120 laps which as a little more than 65 miles. I am very happy. Surasa who has slowed down a little bit is having problems with shin splints. When I caught up with her, I asked, “Do you know what to do about that?” She answered, “No idea. I’ve never had shin splints”. I said, “Great. Neither have I”. I recommended her a certain stretching technique which I resort to when feeling discomfort in periosteum. Purna-Samarpan is a birthday boy today. He’s turned 33. I guess it’s a very special thing to have a birthday on the course. We are having two more birthdays soon those of Petya’s and Volodya’s. But we…