Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

With relatively cool, clear, spring-like weather, the entire field ran past at least 60 miles each for the second day in a row. Vasu Duzhiy just nipped Atmavir Spacil by one lap(71.89 to 71.34 miles)to claim day honors.They both have 289+ miles, a fine 72 miles per day average. Surasa Mairer maintained fourth place overall with another 63.6 mile effort (261.1 miles in 4 days).Yuri Trostenyuk from Ukraine also looks surprisingly well in third overall with 273.3 miles total.  

Archived – click Post Title to view all. This is the end of Day 4. It was quite a good day for me, at least except last 3 hours. I ran out of the energy and was pushing myself till the end. In the morning I was a little bit sleepy, probably because of the digestion which is not 100 precent ok. This year we have quite a lot strong runners. Vasu is looking very strong at his second race – he is still running all the hills. Atmavir is also doing pretty good so far. Surasa is very strong – she is always happy. And she could run for a long time pretty fast. Sarah, although she is not making many miles, she is looking very strong. If she will be 100% ok with the foot, she could do a lot of miles. Baladev is doing very good in comparison with other years. I was not seeing Sopan often this day, probably we were running on the opposite sides of the track – it happens here. Although the loop is not long, but you could see no particular runner for hours and hours. Sarvagata is starting slowly to speed up. Usually at the beginning of the race he is warming up. Ashprihanal is back on the track with his full speed. Nidrhuvi is always very steady. She is not very fast, but probably still faster then me – she could do good mileage because she could maintain steady pace all day. Ananda-Lahari now is focused at 60…

As the race progresses the runners always develop a sense of fitness and the effort marks on their faces recede as their smiles increase. Atmavir Spacil was smiling today as he led the group with 70.24 miles, his third venture past seventy in as many days.Both he and Vasu Duzhiy have the exact lap total of 397. Surasa Mairer climbed into fourth place overall with a 63.66 mile day. Also showing signs of true form was perennial favorite Ashprihanal Aalto. The Flying Finn reached 68 miles today. Another runner to watch is first timer Yuri Trostenyuk of Ukraine, who reached 66.9 miles to move into third overall. All 12 runners are averaging at least 61 miles per day. There is room for improvement too, regardless of foul weather or soaring temps. But with three moderate days in the forecast good running should be the norm and plenty of miles,too. Stay tuned.

Archived – click Post Title to view all. This is the end of day 3. It was quite interesting day, at least for me. In the morning I was still suffering from yesterday, because I was not eating all day. So I felt a little energy and started to run, but energy gone in 2 hours. I started walking again and push myself to eat. After few more hours I got some strength back, but it was flowing slowly. I was pushing myself to eat, although my stomach was not accepting much. By the evening time I felt energy back. The weather was also interesting – hot in the morning 28C, in the afternoon started raining and it was continuing until 10 pm. It was not thunderstorm but it was raining all the time. Will see how it will be with our feet tomorrow. All the runners looked really, really good. After yesterday walking Ashprihanal was running all day and did pretty good mileage. Sarvagata the same. I guess Atmavir did one of the best mileages today. Almost all the runners ran until the end – till midnight, which is not really usual. Sopan was doing his own pace. Vasu was running pretty fast, I guess he will run even faster. Surasha looking really strong this year, she was passing me even in the evening when I started running.  Baladev said that he feeling a little bit tired. Yuri – same perfect running. Sarah, in spite of continuing problem with the feet was doing really good and in the evening…

pictures by Prabhakar

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