Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

Archived – click Post Title to view all. Day 35. 8:34 a.m. A few words about the previous day. It’s midsummer and it’s full moon. In the morning it was quite hard, I hard stomach problems and went to rest before my regular break time. After the break I wasn’t able to run at all. Some time later Kaushal came, looked at me and said that my liver was shutting down. He tried to fix it, but I still couldn’t’t run and walked up to the end of the day. He came in the evening again and was very surprised to find out that practically all my internal organs were shut down – liver, kidneys, stomach. And whichever medicine he tested, all of them fit, as if each organ was crying: “Me too, me too!”. He ended up giving me a shot in the liver. 40 miles on day 35 is ok. Life is life. As usual, the fool moon took its toll on me. According to Kauhal, I will be feeling better now that the moon is waning. Maybe it has the same effect on me in the regular life, but I don’t have to run 100 km a day there. Igor also had problems with his liver and he did fewer miles than usual. Sarvagata had issues with his knees but he managed to do his daily norm. Even Galya, who is not running the race, was feeling bad and didn’t come to cheer us up. Ukrainians had a bad day. Today it’s just the other way round. I feel good and hope that everything will be back to normal. I…

Author: Utpal 14 July Last night a rainbow boldly painted itself across the sky above the Self Transcendence race. There are probably quite a few boring technical and scientific reasons of why and how it was formed, but still in the brief time it glowed up in the sky, it was magical. For the runners it was particularly significant for it was for them a totally unexpected visit of nature’s beauty. They have been every which way around the course over the past month now and yet this was something totally unique and new. No one could recall every seeing something quite as spectacular as this ever on the course. Read more

Author: Utpal July 12 In their first 14 days here each of the top 3 runners had, what you could easily call, good starts.  On day 15 each of them would pass beyond the 1,000 mile mark and then from this moment on something inexplicably changed for all of them.  Since then the level of effort and overall intensity has risen to an astonishing new height.  Igor is the man currently holding down the 3rd position but really barely a slight breeze separates one from the other.  Read more

Day 33. 9:50 pm The day has been really nice – not hot, with the high in 28C. In the morning I managed to get out of the walkers club as Ananda-Lahari, Atmavir and Purna-Samarpan continued their yesterday’s walk. I had a good run in the morning and did 2000 miles in 32 days, 2 hours and 20 minute. ,In spite of all my setbacks, it’s 5 hours ahead of my second best 2,000 miles in 2009. We’ll see. Now I am feeling ok. Kaushal said that my current form was stable and I could pick it up a little. He ‘s spent 6 hours on the course and helped all of us tremendously. Purna-Samarpan had swollen legs and veins, now he is running. Ananda-Lahari and Atmavir are also trotting.Everybody is happy. Surasa has crossed a 2,000-mile mark. The race goes on!

Day 32, 9pm. It’s been a tough day for me, as I’ve been mostly walking. I got diarrhea yesterday because the food had been sitting out in the sun. I had a hard time at night too. In the morning after 10 laps I had no strength. I even took a break just after 1.5 hour running and haven’t been able to run since. Looks like I am going to have the least mileage this year compared with my previous races. It’s OK. These things happen. Today we’ve got another 3 walkers – Ananda-Lahari, Atmavir and Purna-Samarpan. This must be the aftereffects of the heat. Today it was moderately hot, even nice, there was a little breeze, but we haven’t been able to run. Later in the day we had a rain with gusts and then there was a double rainbow. So beautiful! The Supreme’s Smile! Everybody was glowing, even the ones having a hard time. Later in the day another surprise was in store for us. Dr.Kaushal has come all the way from Italy. He’s already on the course taking measures and I hope he’ll help me to increase my mileage and survive my old friend, the full moon. I have become 7.6 kg lighter :-)