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UltraRunning Magazine voted Dipali Cunningham's race at the 2009 Self Transcendence 6-Day Race at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, New York as the top female age group performance of the year. Dipali's 514.83 mile total is the most ever run by a female in America.

Dipali Cunningham (second from the right) at the award's ceremony for the 2009 Self Transcendence 6 and 10 Day Races.

UltraRunning Magazine web site  contains a detailed listing of all the Runners of the Year.

This video commemorates Sri Chinmoy's first marathon by interspersing actual footage of both the 1979 Chico Marathon and the 2009 Marathon held in New York in honor of that event.

Sri Chinmoy often gave as much significance to the outer life as he did to the inner. As a lifelong athlete he found numerous ways to inspire his students to transcend their perceived limitations in athletics. In so doing he knew that if they set challenging goals for themselves it would also inspire them to make inner progress as well.

In the late 70s he took up the sport of distance running with intense dedication. The running boom was just taking off in America and Sri Chinmoy, at age 47, when most would think of retiring, trained himself to run the most difficult distance of all, the marathon.

On March 3 1979, he completed his first Marathon in Chico California. His time was 4:31 and just 3 weeks later he would run one again. On the 30th anniversary of that event, his students honor him by running the 26 mile distance not just in Queens, New Yorkwhere he lived, but in cities around the world.

October 25, Slovenia: Congratulations to Natalia Lehonkova of Ukraine who set a new Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team women’s record in the marathon with a time of 2:48:30. She ran in the Lubljana Marathon (Slovenia) which was held on October 25. She placed 10th overall among the women.  

For more information contact The Lubljana Marathon.