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June 20 Best Place to Be
His arrival this morning is both equal parts, a surprise and to be expected. Pranab has not recorded any miles or covered any laps for 2 days prior to yesterday. One cannot say that, either he is cured of his rash or, that it is getting any worse. Yesterday he ran a very respectable 57 […]
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June 19 As It Is
Asprihanal …………….66…367 Puhkar………………….64…351 Petr……………………..63…337 Grahak…………………62…324 Ananda-Lahar………..50…323 Pranjal…………………58…323 Diganta………………..56…319 Vladmir………………..56…308 Suprabha……………..54…293 Purna-Samarpan……47…271 Stutisheel…………….50…262 Pranab…………………0…183 The long day of rain is at last over, and though the day does not dawn bright it is dry and there are bright hints in the sky that the sun will come. The totals on the board today show what […]
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June 18 Living 100%
Strange unreal shapes splash their way down the dim streets of a wet, and getting much wetter, Queens neighborhood. You can feel that the rain, heavy and ominous, is soon going to sweep with even more relentless power across the city. For many this imminent deluge would squash flat all sparks of brightness with […]
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June 17 Joy, as Much as You Can
He arrives looking strong and upbeat but all is not well with Pranab Vladovic. In last years race, which was his 4th, he set a personal best. A physical ailment however has been relentlessly shadowing him for the past year. In 2008 he lost a full day to it and still came back and set […]
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June 16 Where Dreams Come True
It is the beginning of day 3 and already the routine and rhythm of the 3100 mile race is beginning to feel solidly in place. Those who come early come early and those who have a more relaxed concept of time arrive the best they can. Technology ,in the insidious guise of accurate time, keeping […]
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June 15 At Least Once in My Life
It has been a very good first day for all the runners in the 3100 mile race. The board shows a promising start to the great race, but the weather on this, the second day is not sharing the same bright optimism. It is cool and the rain comes and goes and comes again with […]
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June 14 The Beginning of the Great Journey
In 2007 Sri Chinmoy came to his beloved Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race for the last time. It is a unique and sacred creation of his, this, the longest race in the World. Yet his life was all about inspiring his students and the world around us all. It demonstrates clearly that we all can reach […]
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June 13 Tomorrow it Begins
It is Saturday afternoon in New York and a group of friends are having some pizza. As I watch these runners sitting here so calm and relaxed I am amazed. This is the last time they will have the opportunity to partake of even such a simple pleasure as this. Tomorrow their lives will change […]
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The Garland of Divinity’s Love moves
Flowers are perhaps the most beautiful of all of nature’s offerings. Beautiful and yet at the same time fragile and fleeting. Stores that sell them however we consider in quite a different light. Kanan’s flower store, Garland of Divinity’s Love has been at its Parsons Blvd location for longer than most people can remember. Even […]