Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Archived – click Post Title to view all. Today is the 5th day of the race. It is June 16, 18:52. Atmavir is still the leader, Pranjal is on the 2nd place, then Ashprihanal, Igor and Sarvagata. For this moment I have 290 miles. I’m still running in economic mode. Today in the morning it was very good, my legs were absolutely light, like if I had nor ran before at all. But then fatigue and muscle-twisting returned quickly, though in average today I am running a bit more quickly and perhaps I’ll make a couple of miles more than yesterday. Yesterday I had 59 miles. I was «squeezed» from 2 till 5 in the afternoon, so I ran slowly. But the most important thing is that none of our the most quick runners has passed by me during this time – neither Atmavir, nor Ashprihanal. And only when I started to do my first stretching this day I saw there was somebody on the course. This means, everybody was squeezed. And then when Ashprihanal caught up with me he said: ‘have you seen it, everybody runs so well – nobody come across each other!» So, Ashprihanal cut another joke this morning. As I said, he has got his toe sore and had to cut his shoe, he has never done it for 11 years on the race – he has never cut his shoes because there were no necessity in it. But today he had to cut it but and it was done very carefully and then he…

By Utpal, http://perfectionjourney.org/ When one decides to run the 3100 mile race it quickly becomes apparent that from the moment you take your very first step here that suddenly you are entering a very public arena.  You may have trained for months alone on soft mountain trails and felt the sweet stillness of nature comforting you with its beauty.  Perhaps you ran care free without any problem intruding into your life and felt contentment and peace in abundant measure.  This world is available here as well on the concrete loop here in Queens but it is an aspect of the race that does not come to all and never to all, all the time. read more

Archived – click Post Title to view all. June 15, 20:13. The 4th day of the race. The sun has almost set down. And the day almost over. What to say, the paces of all the runners are getting more equal that is why you cannot run together with someone very often. My speed is increasing, but definitely I need a couple of days more to go through the transition period. Of course, in the evening my legs are aching and you can do not so many things with such legs. But everybody feels them aching, so we just have such a noise here! («bzz») Pranjal ankle is swollen, he runs a bit slowly, but I am sure this would not affect his miles too much because he is one of those who stays on the course until the very end, up to midnight in order to do his maximum. Ashprihanal has some infection under his nail, I have seen as Bipin was helping him to treat it with hydrogen peroxide. He also was walking for some time, but now he is running. Though his speed slowed down too. Today it was hot, I guess +28. And the temperature only now is getting down, but still it is stuffy, you can feel warm air. But all this is quite bearable, I think the surprises are ahead of us. The most important news: Purna-Samarpan has his Birthday today. He turned 34 years, and we were all wearing birthday hats at the start line. And as Rupantar announced start we were…

Whenever we attempt to fully describe others we quickly begin to realize that each and every person is multifaceted.  That no one label can ever begin to adequately describe someone.  We are all composed of so many different qualities and capacities.  Most of us perhaps would like to picture ourselves in the, ‘jack of all trades, master of none category.’ read more..

Something happened to Pranjal . He’s got a red stain on the back of his T-shirt, must have stained it or something. And for sure many people are interested what the bullet wound he has got. At last when I asked him about it, he answered, “That’s it. I guess it’s really necessary to change the T-shirt, because even a policeman asked me: “Are you ok, sir? Aren’t you wounded?””