Blog Team


I would like to offer my gratitude to self-giving people, who were translating Utpal’s posts into russian and making it interesting and beautiful all 52 days of the race in 2016. Here we go: image Kalakanja Filatova (Russia) – editor, administrator Tania Tetiana Troyanovich (Ukraine) – translator, editor, administrator Nastia2 Anastasiya Beisova (Russia) – translator, editor Harikanta Harikanta Ketova (Russia) – translator, editor Sambhava Sambhava Tsibenko (Russia) – translator   And also Ratuja Zub (Belorussia) – translator   Stutisheel, 3100 mile runner, author

Race finish – midnight August 9, Day 52


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Kaneenika’s finish! 51 days + 7:31:07


  Pictures from the finish 31002016-4824

Day 51, Stutisheel


Day 51, 3100-Mile Race 2016 from Stutisheel Lebedev on Vimeo.

August 8… A New Experience (Utpal)


This morning when Surasa ran by me she asked if I wouldn’t mind taping a message for her.  Of course I considered it a great honor to be able to to record this for all her friends and admirers.

“I have a message for my friends.” “Dear friends all over the world.  I just want to tell you that you don’t have to worry about me.  I am really fine.” Continue

August 7, how can I stop? By Utpal


 When I meet with Baladev this morning he has just been reading a page full of poems that Sri Chinmoy wrote on the topic of never giving up.

I ask him what that means to him and he says, “right now I am not in a talking mood.” Instead he uses the time to read them all to me.  In a thoughtful and compelling way. Sharing with me, that when he read them moments earlier they had made him cry. Continue

August 6, Utpal. God Has a Plan


Be good and remain good; if you want to be a supremely chosen child of God. When I go to meet Vasu out on the course he is reciting the daily prayer with Stutisheel.  Saying the daily prayer is something that he has done throughout this race, and as far as I know it is something so important to him that he has done this same thing every day in all the 5 years he has run here.

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