Archive for June, 2015
June 16th, Jowan: Photos day 3
June 16, 2015
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June 16, Utpal: Happy and Grateful to Be Here Again
June 16, 2015 When Surasa first entered the 3100 mile race in 2010 it was a monumental moment. The previous year the great Suprabha Beckjord had run the race for the last time. From its inception in 1997 no other girl had even attempted to run the race prior to Surasa’s entrance in the 13th running of the race. But Surasa had an extraordinary history of distance running reaching back nearly 20 years. Even at age 51 she was not fearful of trying to run the longest race in the world. But this race is like no other and in her valiant effort that year she completed 2760 miles. Of course the door now was wide open. So Surasa came back again the following year, once again the only female entrant, but this time she had found what was needed to complete the race before the cutoff. She finished in 53 days, 15 hours. Not content with her achievement in 2011, she came back once again in 2013 and had an even better race. She came in 5th overall and completed the distance in 50 days and 4 hours. At this time she also set the record for being the oldest runner to complete the race. A record that lasted until last year, when William Sichel ran at 60 years of age. When I welcomed her back to the race this year, she said, “I am just happy and grateful to be here again.”
Day 2, results
June 15, 2015
Day 2, Stutisheel
June 15, 2015June 15th, Jowan: Photos day 2
June 15, 2015
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June 15, Utpal: More Enthusiasm
June 15, 2015Archived – click Post Title to view all. Ashprihanal said, “I have taken a year off and now I have more enthusiasm.” Many significant moments during a race this long and hard can sometimes be obscured by the shear immensity of it all. It is convenient to find therefore from time to time little sign posts along the way. To be able to better take stalk and attempt to comprehend even fragments of this grand miracle taking place in full public view. If you do not pause and observe from time to time and grasp for a clearer perspective than it becomes impossible to appreciate what is truly happening overall. The race record set by Madhupran in 2006, was 41 days and 8 hours. It has long been the pinnacle that the best runners have sought after but none have been able to really get that close to. In that year he averaged 74 miles a day an incredible achievement. The only one to get close was Madhupran’s previous record of 72 miles a day in 2002. After that comes Ashprihanal’s performance in 2007, which was an average of 71.8 miles. Yesterday a new record was set by Ashprihanal that, if it does not speak of great things to come, than at least demonstrates that this 44 year old runner from Helsinki may run his best race ever. All this considering that he is running it this summer for the 13th time…….which ties the record held by Suprabha for most times running the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile race. “My previous best was…
