Day 28 - Saturday 12th July 2003

The whole group gave it the old college try, as the summery weather started to heat up again. Namitabha Arsic was able to fashion 61.4656 miles, but no one else could exceed the 60 mile barrier. Sometimes the totality of the runners’ efforts over the past four weeks extracts a sub-par result. No expectation can ever be placed on their performances, simply because they are not machines. Every day is a new effort, a new challenge. 

Photo: Matt, Trishul and Namitabha discussing race tactics.

Weather
Max Temperature    84.2 °F / 29.0 °C
Min Temperature    68.0 °F / 20.0 °C 

Our e-mail is: 3100@srichinmoyraces.us

I went out to see the runners and want to report that after 7:00 AM, Australian Matt was two miles away from 1200 Miles. When he was at about 500 miles and we were chating he mentioned that we have the same birthday. There is a 30 year difference. It turns out on that day in 1973 when Matt was being born and I had just been around Sri Chinmoy and his students in Jamaica for a short time. On that day I received a special Gift in my awareness for my birthday. At any rate Matt and I were discussing these things as we walked or jogged along. It also was noted that my longest distance for running any event was 50 miles. I mentioned to Matt that he was 30 years later than me coming to this world but as of that date at 500 miles he was already 10 times better. In his own Self Transcendence race today he passed the 1200 mile mark and therefore in our shared oneness transcendence world is now "30 years later - 22 times better." Congrats Matt, Prachar, Salil and the Australian oneness support team.
Adhiratha Keefe, New York

We miss you, Matt, but thought of you today when I was looking at the elephants in the merry-go-round. Did you know there are two elephants there, not only horsies? One is white, the other one is another colour. And there's a shop there, not far from the statue sheeps which are just standing there, and in the shop there are lots of red elephants, one on the floor and the others in different places. That shop isn't far from the fountain which isn't flowing, but there's no crocodiles in the water, but I didn't want to go in anyway, 'cause the water's cold and I wasn't wearing shoes. We saw the grass then but there were no kangaroos eating any, and it was too far to walk to the mountain to see some. Prachar let me walk all the way down the stairs by myself while mummy was meditating. And I want to tell you a secret - I'm saving my biggest dinosaur to give to you.
Jack (2 years old) Canberra Australia (typed by Prachar)

Congratulations Matt on reaching 2000km You are an inspiration! Keep it up
Phil Essam, Melbourne, Australia

I would like to send all my good wishes to the runners of 3100 mile race. They give me so much of inspiration. I wish I was there to serve the race in some way.
Krishna, Kathmandu Nepal