Its Over
2008-05-03 05:05 PM | Posted by Medur Wilson | Permanent Link | Self-Transcendence Multiday Races
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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 |
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