Day 12: Pranjal Shows His Strength
photo by Jowan On a hot, humid,rudderless weather day, with storms nearby missing the race left and right, Pranjal Milovnik took day honors with 66.95 miles. The 94º temps and 65% humidity forced Asprihanal Aalto and Petr Spacil to cutback their high mileage of the last week and a half. Still eight men made it [...]
Day 11: Fitness Counts
photo by Jowan As Day 11 rolled on, with temps in the nineties and warm breezes in the air, our brave runners continued on their journey. Nine of the 11 made 60 or more miles. Asprihanal Aalto again led the way with 72.44 miles followed by Petr Spacil with 70.24 and Pranjal Milovnik with 68.05. [...]
Day 10- Wakey Wakey!
I’m fortunate enough to be behind the scenes of one of the runners. You get to see more than what they eat or what they wear. With a 6:00am start each morning, I suppose at some point, it’s gonna be hard to get up at 5:00am to get ready. In our house we have two [...]
Day 10: Moving Along
photo by Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal After ten days, Asprihanal Aalto and Peter Spacil have passed 700 miles, with the former reaching it in 9 days+14:35:26, and the latter in 9 days+15:44:00. The day was punctuated by summer skies of sun and haze, followed by evening clouds and a fast moving rainstorm. [...]
Today was HOT!
Rain or extreme shine, these runners continue circumferencing this half mile city block in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. I really do NOT know how to explain the way these superheros complete mile after mile on a solid concrete floor day in and day out. And we are only on day 9. Still there is [...]
Day 9: The Beat(and the Heat) Goes On
photo by Jowan Asprihanal Aalto rebounded with a fine 74.63 mile effort as the thermometer reached 90º and the first day of summer nudged into full view. Petr Spacil also went past 70 miles(70.79) and seven brave runners exceeded 60+ miles.
Day 8: The Heat is On!
photo by Nandana On a sticky, hot, humid Father’s Day in New York, the band of 11 Gypsies known as the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race continued along their journey. Petr Spacil led all boats to the shore with 69.14 miles, pulling within 2 laps of the overall leader Asprihanal Aalto, who plodded along with 66.4 [...]
Day 7: A Week Gone By
photo by Nandana The dynamic eleven have fed the fires of aspiration to be in and to remain in this super long race. After a week, Asprihanal Aalto remains first with 499.95 miles. Petr Spacil has climbed to within seven laps of the lead. Vladimir Balatskyy is still solidly in third place, nearly 18 miles [...]
Day 6: Six Day Splits
photo by Arpan The ice cream truck that circles the running track of the 3100 miler has a couple of banana splits for sale among its tasty wares. But more on the minds of the runners were six day splits which are the pop-quiz for a 3100 mile racer. Asprihanal Aalto logged in first with [...]
One cool thing about New York are the fireflies
One cool thing about New York are the fireflies. Up to this point in my life I always thought fireflies were a creature of fantasy and only existed in fairy tales. But when twilight arrives, these little balls of light appear magically before our eyes. Now, this may or may not have anything to do [...]