Posted in race experiences on Jul 20, 2010 by Stutisheel | Comments Off on Day 38
Right after the 6 am start, while walking, all the runners sang a Happy Birthday song for Atmavir. It must be very special to have a birthday at the 3100 mile race. We gave him a T-shirt with Sri Chinmoy’s drawings of soul-birds. Everybody was wearing green party hats :) Atmavir is having a good day. We are expecting a birthday cake later in the day, too. Dharbasana has been struggling with hamstring problems and is reduced to walking. He’s tried every possible remedy and massage but nothing seems to help… Although he says it’s not getting worse. As we say here at the race, “The race gives problems, the race takes them back”. As usual, the Enthusiasm singers come to the race every morning at 6.40am. It’s a group of girl singers who perform exclusively English songs by Sri Chinmoy. They are my favorite group performing at the race. Today I was sitting behind them and felt breathtaking beauty of those melodies and songs. Their morning performance is the most soulful part of the day. It reminds us of the times when Sri Chinmoy visited the race. Tomorrow we have another birthday boy. On the 39th day of the race Galya Balatsky is turning 39.
Posted in race experiences on Jul 19, 2010 by Stutisheel | Comments Off on 3100 Miles Around This Block
Utpal’s blog from June 28, 2010 The runners have barely even stumbled and staggered through the first lap of the day and already most are sweating. Not just a moist sheen on the brow kind of perspiration. Instead visualize the sticky clammy free flow of moisture bursting out from within kind. The molecular geyser sort that gushes out out onto the surface of one’s body, in order to do the only thing nature has shown it what to do, in order to try and keep us cool. The crazy thing is, that it is not even really very hot, at least not yet anyway. Read more
Posted in news on Jul 18, 2010 by Alakananda | Comments Off on Results day 36
Results day 36, miles. Asprihanal Aalto 71.89 Total 2394.41 Galya Balatsky 68.6 Total 2380.69 Pranjal Milovnik 63.67 Total 2380.15 Atmavir Petr Spacil 54.88 Total 2283.56 Pushkar C Mullauer 57.63 Total 2223.74 Dharbhasana Lynn 46.65 Total 2145.26 Ananda-Lahari Zuscin 60.37 Total 2067.88 Baladev Pavol Saraz 55.43 Total 2059.65 Surasa Maier 54.33 Total 1906.53 Purna-Samarpan Querhammer 52.68 Total 1874.15 Stutisheel Lebedyev Total 1386.27
Posted in race experiences on Jul 18, 2010 by Stutisheel | Comments Off on Day 36
4:20pm. I am at the race counting laps. It’s 36C in the shade. At midnight yesterday it was 28C. It’s been an extreme summer. Asprihanal has bounced back and is leading the race again. He is in a fabulous mood, his confidence is back and it couldn’t but tell on his speed. Looks like he is being immune to the heat.The same is true for Pranjal and Galya. The gap between the two is closing. I always find it unbelievable: the runners have covered 2,300 miles and the gap between them is just a couple of miles! Dharbasana has got problems with a ham string and he has to switch into a walking mode. Baladev has been walking the whole day, too. Purna Samarpan is getting close to the mark of 1,884 miles which was his total mileage in 41 days of the race last year. My knee is slowly but steadily getting better. I even can walk in a certain posture. It turned out I had problems not only with ligaments. It’s a bunch of other issues I need to tend to.
