Sri Chinmoy MT Blog USA

The Roof Comes Down

Utpal covers the camp breakdown.

The Goal is Won

The finish by Utpal Marshall.

The Goal Beckons Me

Here is Utpal's story for the last night on the course this year.

Its Over

(photo by Arpan)

What can you say.

Madhupran was all alone and still came up with the third best distance in a ten day period in history.

Then there's John who fought off a concerted attack from Igor yesterday, found hom out on the course and basically stuck with him for the last 12 hours of the race. I guess he wanted to show him who was the boss.

Ivana opened up the gap between her and Lenka in the last day and never looked back. Dipali had no competition. Kaneenika made it look easy. The rookie Petr Simicek squeaked by the rookie Purnasamarpan to capture seventh spot in the 6 day and get into the top 7 winners' circle. Alfia Olga Abramovskikh recaptured her lead over Svitlana Samarina in the last 2 days and captured the 4th position in the women's ten day. There was plenty of intense competition over the course of the ten days of this event.

But I want to give the day's award and kudos to the rookie, Vladimir Razumofskiy, from Krasnodor, Russia. He found 67 miles within him for the final 24 hour period. I was in the 6-day counting tent with 237:48:39 on the race clock. In a 240 hour race that means we are just over 2 hours from the finish. Vladimir came up to us and sincerely asked Petr Spacil (the 6-day counter and 3,100 miler) if he could still do it. I looked at him and then at the board and immediately saw that he wanted to get to the 500 mile mark for the finish. He was at 282 laps at that point. I did not want to discourage him but it was obvious that he was not going to be able to run 18 miles in just over two hours after running full out for 10 days. He seemed to figure it out by himself but I was struck by his intensity and earnest desire to achieve his goal of 500 miles. He beat everyone else in the 10 day race that day and takes the top mile honors for the tenth day from all the way down in 18th place in the finals table.

The 10 Day race Final Results:
Men Women

And the 6 Day:
Men Women

Day 9 results

(photo by Arpan)

Woo hoo! Top honors for the men's 10-day go to Glen Turner who turned on the juice last night. John Geesler in the 6-day briefly relinquished the lead to Igor Mudryk just before yesterday's 8 day split but put in the day's top overall performance at 72 miles and pulled back into the lead. Dipali Cunningham remains in commanding lead of the women's 6-day. Olga Abramovskikh took top honors in the women's 10 day race with 60 miles. Kaneenika Janakova is 30 miles out in front of the battle royal for 2nd place between Lenka Svecova and Ivana Nemcova who have been within 5 miles of each other for the entire 9 days.

Day 9 of the 10 day race:
Men Women

Day 5 of the 6 day:
Men Women

Near and yet so far

Utpal is trying to stay ahead of the runners.

In the Still of the Night

More of Utpal's interviews and video .

Day 8 Results are In

(photo by Arpan)

I stayed at the race today from the midnight shift so that I could capture the 8/4 day splits. Here they are:

Day 8 of the 10 day race:
Men Women

Day 4 of the 6 day:
Men Women

A little earlier this time