Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

It’s the 13th day, 8.30 p.m local time. Today’s weather is much better, and there is no humidity. In the afternoon, it was about 27 Celsius. It’s quite cool, the wind is blowing. It’s just perfect after the scorching heat. I’ve had a very good day. I met Ashprihanal only  11 hours after the start. Such things happen when we run at the same speed. We do not see each other all day long. When we were on our way to the race in the morning, he said that he did not expect big results from this race for himself. But you never know what may turn up, no two years are ever the same. Let’s see. Today a big surprise awaited me –  I got a letter from Abichal. He could not participate in  the race two years in a row, but said that he wanted to come back. He is working on this. We surely will run together. How wonderful!!  

Day 12 results, miles Asprihanal Aalto 62.56 Total  846.25 Petr Spacil 64.76 Total  841.31 Vladimir Balatsky 65.31 Total  810.58 Pranjal Milovnik 65.31 Total  799.05 Stutisheel Lebedyev 57.63 Total  774.36 Pushkar C Mullauer 62.56 Total  759.54 Pavol Saraz 61.47 Total  754.6 Ananda-Lahari Zuscin 61.46 Total  743.62 Dharbhasana Lynn 62.02 Total  688.2 Purna-Samarpan Querhammer 53.78 Total 650.33 Surasa Maier 52.13 Total 638.25

  Day, 12 Thursday, June 24, 2010   It’s the 12th day of the race, local time: 9.51 p.m. The hottest day we’ve had so far is coming to an end. It was about 33 degrees Celsius  plus humidity. Starting from  8 a.m. I had to wet my head and to put a packet of ice under my cap. Today also is the first day when I’ve put on my sun-protection suit because it was really hot. But anyway, the heat made me walk and from 4 p.m. I was walking for several hours. To my great joy after a few hours walking and after the second break about 6  o’clock I was able run. It’s going to be fewer miles than usually, but it’s not a big deal. These few days – yesterday and today – have been really hot, but yesterday I could do 64 miles. Today will be less. But there will be some anyway!!!   The first three runners – Ashprihanal, Petya and Volodya have already run over 800 miles. Darbashana is running very well, the only thing is that he leaves the race earlier, that’s why his mileage is not very high, but during the day he catches up with almost everybody. Surasa is running  all the time, she is much better, so, as you can see our entire race moves forward quite successfully.    

Day 11 results, miles Asprihanal Aalto 72.45 Total  783.69 Petr Spacil 70.24 Total  776.55 Vladimir Balatsky 65.86 Total  745.27 Pranjal Milovnik 68.05 Total  732.1 Stutisheel Lebedyev 64.21 Total  716.73 Pushkar C Mullauer 62.57 Total  696.98 Pavol Saraz 60.36 Total  693.13 Ananda-Lahari Zuscin 61.47 Total  682.16 Dharbhasana Lynn 62.18 Total  626.18 Purna-Samarpan Querhammer 50.49 Total 596.55 Surasa Maier 49.39 Total 586.12

Utpal’s post “I am happy I did it” is available here