Takasumi completed the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in 51 days, 12 hours, 50 minutes, 52 seconds

“Lots of ups and downs.  Lots of challenges.  There continues to be lots of challenges.  I know I always look as if everything is great.” “There is always physical things that happen.  Up until the very end I just pray for protection, and I pray to be taken care of.  That I can reach the […]

“I didn’t realize how hard the race would be.  Not just for the runners but also all the workers.” I am going to be the 50th person to to complete the race but I didn’t realize just how many people behind the scenes working together to put the race on. I want people to know […]

“Probably to do something that is long and is good you need to love it.  I just love this race.  For me it has an intensity and many other things that I don’t go through in my day to day ordinary life.” “I come here for self-transcendence.  For a feeling of oneness.  To see and […]

“Each of my races here are beautiful in there own way.  If you look at my first race it was very hard for me.  Perhaps even harder than this one.  But if we speak just about this race I had many more things happen to me.” “I can’t remember all the things ….It started with […]

“It was the first year I ran in the race. When I reached 2700 miles, I was passing the counting table and people were congratulating me.”  Suprabha ( a fellow runner ) was also there and she also congratulated him. Of all the support and encouragement offered at that moment Ananda-Lahari says he was basically […]