The full scripts of each of our lives are impossible to predict.  Seldom if not not ever do we ever really know just what will happen next.  The great scribe of life no doubt knows but it cannot be revealed to us until the moment passes and the page is turned.  I had made an […]

As Takasumi describes the many years he dreamed, planned, and prepared himself to come to Sri Chinmoy 3100 mile Self-Transcendence race his clear bright face reveals the tremendous awe and respect he has to be one of the precious few to set off this year in this the longest race in the world. Every runner […]

Last year when the 3100 mile race was held in Salzburg, Andrea Marcato entered the longest distance race in the world for the first time.  At age 38 the trajectory of his athletic career was in a clear path to collide with this event sooner rather than latter.  He had for some time accumulating impressive […]

There are many many things which I will never understand.  Explore even a fraction of Science’s ever expanding dimensions, grasp a dangling thread from the coat tails of sophisticated creativity and art, and then there is the very exclusive world of ultra athletics.  One in which unique individuals explore the outer limitations of physical capacity […]

I was wondering this morning just what kind of person and with what kind of determination they would need have to be able to reveal just how man times Ananda-Lahari has circled around Thomas Edison High school.   In this his 17th attempt he has put in an almost incalculable amount of effort and determination to […]

When Wei Ming first came to the multi day races held in Flushing Meadow in 2014 he made clear just what his goal was, to run the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile race.  He has continued his training and competing for many years and now at age 58 is the first Asian to enter the […]

It seems such a familiar thing now this race that first started 25 years ago.  And yet of course it is not.  It can never be a stationary thing because it is after all about movement and about becoming.  We are all very grateful to all those in Salzburg who managed to keep the flame […]

We are all in this Together.  Race director Rupantar’s opening remarks Ananda-Lahari Zuscin 47 Kosics Slovakia Andrea Marcato 39 Zurich Switzerland Harita Davies 47 Christchurch New Zealand Lo Wei Ming 58 Taiwan Stutisheel Lebedev 51 Kiev Ukraine Takasumi Senoo 39 Japan Vasu Duzhiy 54 St Petersberg Russia