Photos Day 27
July 12, 2014Photos from day 27 are available here.
Archive for July, 2014
Photos Day 26
July 12, 2014Photos from day 26 are available here.
July 10: Self-Transcendence is Eternal by Utpal
July 12, 2014 “In this race the weather is everything. This morning was one of the best days we have had, with low humidity and absolutely everyone is flying around the course. This is the 26th day of the race and we have had only 2 hot days and I wouldn’t even say they were hot. I wouldn’t classify them as really hot since we haven’t reached 100. Which we consider really hot weather.”
“We still have a long way to go but now is the time to really get some miles in. Right now you can store some miles up and when the real hot weather comes you can back off. And everyone seems to be doing that.” This was a little comment that Rupantar, the race director made this morning on the fly.
Day 27, Stutisheel
July 11, 2014July 9: Every Experience by Utpal
July 11, 2014In all the years the 3100 has been taking place here in New York it has never ceased to amaze, astound, and thrill, both athletes and the general public alike. Words like impossible and unbelievable are regularly and futilely used to describe, in one hopeless fashion or another, just what it is that happens here every day for 52 continuous days. No matter what adjectives you pull out of the dictionary to describe what it is and what truly happens, they simply don’t work. Or perhaps better expressed, they only tell a small portion of what the experience of the Self Transcendence 3100 is.
Day 26, Stutisheel
July 10, 2014July 8: Food for the Soul by Utpal
July 10, 2014 Each and every day the 14 runners at the 3100 mile race collectively accumulate on average 830 miles. As of midnight last night, the end of day 23, when Pranjal was the last one to leave the course, the lights went out, and he pedaled home, they had run 19,105 miles.
Lots of things both big and small have to be perfectly in place, for this all to happen. Laps have to be counted, clothes have to be cleaned, and bodies have to be patched up, and coaxed and prodded to keep going. All the little details and all the bits and pieces of an event like this are crucial. Very little is left to chance. But certainly the most important thing the runners need besides strength, determination, and a cheerful spirit, is food.
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