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Day 6, Results

June 18, 2010

Asprihanal Aalto 70 Total 432 Petr Spacil 70 Total 426 Vladimir Balatsky 67 Total 415 Pranjal Milovnik 64 Total 411 Pushkar C Mullauer 63 Total 394 Stutisheel Lebedyev 66 Total 391 Pavol Saraz 64 Total 388 Ananda-Lahari Zuscin 58 Total 378 Dharbhasana Lynn 56 Total 360 Surasa Maier 54 Total 358 Purna-Samarpan Querhammer 55 Total 344

Day 6, Pictures

June 18, 2010

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Day 6

June 18, 2010

Archived – click Post Title to view all. 7.40 pm It’s the first day that life’s been getting better. It looks like the transition is drawing to its close. I’ve been running in a more confident manner, a little faster and, most importantly, with no problems. Almost painless. I am still having problems with night sleep. From previous race experience I know that it takes from two to three weeks to get a sound restful sleep. Nevertheless, I was full of energy this morning. The energy comes into motion. I mean it. Energy does come into motion. Others are OK too. No major injuries and failures. Surasa is still fighting her shin splints. It’s like treating a runny nose: when you treat it, it takes 7 days to get better; when you don’t, it takes a week. Volodya’s got swollen feet, and he’s wearing special knee-length socks to tighten up his gastrocnemius muscles. The body has all kinds of reactions to the transition. His legs look like those of a body-builder. He is being stable, though. Dharbasana is being enthusiastic. We noticed that he was running in regular marathon shoes. One does need a better strategy for the concrete. He won’t listen to our advice. I guess he has to figure it out by himself soon. Our race was on the verge of being closed down. We were attacked by terrorists. The brave American police defended the longest race in the world just brilliantly. The thing is we really saw a suitcase under the tree. As it…

June 18, 2010

photo by Arpan.