July 22, Utpal: Everything is Part of the Race
“How can you have a good story about food poisoning?”
Surasa smiles back with her bright inexhaustible enthusiasm, “I have a very good story about it.”
After this Surasa came back to the race and was wondering what should she do. “It was clear to me. I cannot rest for 24 hours. Than I decided that I would run, but I will not eat. I will give some rest to my stomach. Of course this was very stupid.” 
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July 21, Utpal: Can’t Do This By Yourself
I start off my conversation this morning with Nirbhasa, by dealing with the painfully obvious subject matter of the abrasions to his face. Which since it occurred 4 days ago is now old news. He is looking much much better each day since he took a tumble last Friday.
He says it never worried him falling but was more concerned about the loss of time. “I never really thought it was all over. Up here (everything above his legs), there is no part of my body that I need to run with. Including the brain. (laughs) 
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Archived – click Post Title to view all. “I come every day because I can only be inspired by this race.” Dipali probably does a lot of things really well. The only thing I ever see her do most days though is run. For hours her light strides prowl here and there around the Queens neighborhood in which she lives. There may be some strict trajectory to her flights each day but most often she seems to flit here and there. She will suddenly pop up unexpectedly on some road you are walking when you least expect it. The light cadence of her shoes dancing across the sidewalk. A perpetual smile beaming beneath a large pair of sunglasses. When the 3100 mile race is going on of course her orbits more frequently mesh into the cycle of the runners. She loves the race very much but it has never called her to it. Her race is Flushing Meadow and the yearly 6 day race. “Right now I am truly inspired by Ashprihanal’s performance. I saw him last year start the 10 day race. And I thought, that boy is on some special record, which he did. He was doing 83 miles a day.” “This year I saw his first lap. I have never seen Ashprihanal go out so fast on lap one. I thought, he is after the record here. Intuitively I felt it.” “To break down what he is doing, he is running an average of 76.58 miles a day. From day one I have seen every record go of his predecessor…
