Author: Sahishnu

photo by Jowan No, this is not a geriatric shuffleboard tournament result. There were eight runners over sixty miles on Day Five, including Asprihanal Aalto with 71.34 and Petr Spacil with 70.24. These men are showing signs of mounting fitness considering the fact that they both have been battling illness the last few days, including fever and weakness. Yet on they go with their cohorts around the famous block to gather more miles and new life experiences. Both newcomers Dharbhasana Lynn and Surasa Maier are averaging over 60 miles per day in their first attempt so far. Vladimir Balatskyy also moved up to third place with another 66.95 mile day. More later!

photo by Jowan

On a overcast, breezy New York summer day, Petr Spacil from the Czech Republic ran 70.24 miles to lead the pack through their paces. He climbed within eight laps pf overall leader Asprihanal Aalto, who has 290.86 miles after four days. Ten of the eleven starters are averaging over 60 miles a day, with four over 70 miles average. Granted, it is extremely early in the event, but the first real test will be a mini heat wave coming over the weekend. Hot sticky weather is the bane of a multiday runner. yet, these tests will determine who has the character and talent to finish this race- six weeks from now!

photo by Jowan

The runners are experiencing a cool summer beginning so far in the 3100 mile race. Petr Spacil from Czech Republic posted the best total by one lap over Asprihanal Aalto with 68.6 miles as high mileage fatigue is affecting everyone. Mr Aalto still leads with 226.6 miles with six men over 200 miles. Purna-Samarpan Querhammer celebrated his 32nd birthday with cheesecake and candles for a few moments before continuing on. Surasa Maier still looks good after 189.3 miles on the concrete surface. Temperatures went into the low 60’s at night so good running was on the menu.

Day 2
A somewhat drier day led our running heroes to continue the struggle. Asprihanal Aalto from Helsinki,Finland, he of the nine previous finishes, led once more from start to finish with 74.63 miles, closely followed by Pranjal Milovnik with 71.34 miles. The second and third days are usually the toughest in a multiday as one’s body is still in shock from the effort at full strength, so second or third day totals are predictably less. First-timer Dharbhasana Lynn had a better second day with 63.66 miles, so that theory is skewed a bit. But the routine of running from early morning to almost midnight is hard to duplicate in training, so one never knows what to expect the first time through a superlong run.
More later.

On an overcast and somewhat cool summer afternoon in New York, 53-year-old Suprabha Beckjord reached the improbable milestone of 13 finishes of the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race, completing the distance in 60 days+08:58:51.She was the final finisher of this year’s event. Her journeys in the last baker’s dozen of extreme multidays has brought her nearly twice around the world( 40,302.226 miles/ 64,622.160 km) while remaining in the confines of a .5488 mile loop around a city parkland and vocational high school sidewalks. The petite gift-shop owner has remained the only female entrant in the race’s existence and the only person to finish all thirteen. If you stack her best performance in the 3100(49 days,14 hours+)against the men athletes she still ranks 18th among the 26 finishers. She is an amazing superlong distance runner.
We hope you have enjoyed reading or hearing about the 3100 Mile race this year. See you next year!!

Suprabha Beckjord ran 45.55 miles today to get within 53 laps(29 miles) of her coveted goal of 3100 miles. The petite Washington,D.C. store-owner is trotting onto her own historical platform- 13 finishes and immortality at superlong distance running. No woman has ever run this race even once, and no man has run more miles than her. She is expected to finish between 3:00 and 4:00 pm local time. Thanks to all who helped make the event what it is.

With a 46.09 mile day under her belt, Suprabha Beckjord is only 136 laps from finishing. She has weathered the heat wave(?!!) and the difficult running surface to be in position to finish Thursday afternoon. This observer has never seen her so focused on getting the job done. The lucky thirteenth finish awaits. Thursday.

photo by Arpan

A more normal New York summer day – high nineties with high humidity and no breezes – was the formidable foe today, but our heroine Suprabha Beckjord carried on with 44.45 miles. A rendezvous with the finish line appears to be real on Thursday afternoon late. Tonight huge thunderstorms raged only miles away but the 3100 mile course was spared the heavy rains and high winds.

photo by Arpan
Thirty-four year-old Slovakian Ananda-Lahari Zuscin became the tenth person to finish this year, running 3100 miles in 55 days+10:12:07. This was his fifth finish and bettered by six hours last year’s effort. Suprabha Beckjord remains the last runner and will finish on Thursday, August 13th.