Day 48:Vasu Duzhiy Wins 3100 Mile Race

Vasu Duzhiy,47, from St. Petersburg,Russia won the Seventeenth Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race today, finishing the 5649 laps in 47 days +05:39:00. The race started on June 16th with 12 runners circumnavigating a 0.5488 mile (883 meters) loop in the neighborhood. Mr Duzhiy averaged 65.6 miles per day(105.6 km). He was trailing by over 20 miles with only seven days of running left but made a charge that included four days over 70 miles out of the last six. The whole field had been reeling from a second heat wave lasting seven days in the middle of July. Vasu ran four days faster than his first-time finish of last year(51 days 10 hours). Tonight Atmavir Spacil will finish late in the evening which will be his seventh completion of the longest footrace and his highest placing ever. Stay tuned….