Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Archived – click Post Title to view all. It is the 25th day of the race, the clock shows 9:05pm. After the Independence Day, I had been recovering and only yesterday I started to get my energy back and I did 62 miles. Today happened to be very interesting because it is already the 3rd day in the row that the temperature rose up to 33C and today since the very morning it’s been humid. So, of course, in the afternoon I was quite wiped out, although I kept running. However, I am going to have quite a decent mileage, though I expected it to be more. Today I have completed half of the distance which is 1550 miles (24 days 6 hours and 14 minutes). It is one day faster than my previous record race in 2009. But in 2009 I completed the second half of the distance one day faster than the first one. So, I have a good backlog at least and the best present for my half of the distance was a completely unexpected arrival of Sugambhir! When I saw him, everything immediately became much better for me. So, the help has arrived. Approximately at a time, when I was doing my 1550 miles, Sarvagata and Igor approached 1700 miles on the same lap being 5 meters apart. So, our new generation of runners is 150 miles ahead of me. Running lap by lap for long distances is also great because you come in contact with the people who are 150 miles ahead of you and…

Archived – click Post Title to view all. It is the 24th day of the race, 7:24am. I would like to say a few words about yesterday. It was the 4th of July – the Independence Day in America. I myself had to struggle a real battle for independence. I ate something that did not please my stomach and in the morning of the 4th of July first I was struggling with my leg so that it could run normally. Later in the day I picked up my regular pace and found out that my feet weighed several tons. No energy whatsoever and after 10 laps I had to make a break. I looked at my tongue, it was as white as snow. It was clear to me that there was a block in digestion and this mush have drained energy. So, throughout the day I tried to normalize my digestive system with changeable success but I did not succeed in it and that day I broke my record in minimal daily mileage – 43 miles only. And in the evening I still had a feeling that my stomach did not work at full capacity and even ached a bit. So, I started to think of a way out of this situation. It occurred to me to get a cleansing with a lemon diet. Of course, not a full 10-day cycle :), but the last hour and a half on the course when I was walking I prepared a Neera drink with a Madal Bal syrup and drank…

Author: Utpal 29 June Quite often great moments in sports are captured by film crews and news reporters and are then shown on evening news programs or are splashed across sports sections of local news papers. If you score a goal, win a match, or set a record at something there is a pretty good chance somebody will be there to capture it for posterity. It will then fly out into the endless electronic void. Where countless eyes will be peering as it whizzes by into the great information wasteland. Read more

Author: Utpal 28 June I hoped to continue my detective work at the race this morning.  The burning question that continued to vex me, was how all the runners could somehow improve from Day 14  to Day 15 Sunday.  I had no plan on using any third degree questioning in my sleuthing, because after all something quite remarkable had taken place.  Still I found it puzzling that everybody’s laps had increased by a phenomenal average of 7 in just one day. There first thing that surprised me when I asked about it this morning was that really none of the runners had even noticed.  For them it simply wasn’t very important and, also it was a long time ago, a little more than 24 hours.  Their collective responses seemed to be reduced to the patently obvious, we simply had a good day.  Read more