Multi-day tips, part 2: Coping with rainy weather
This is the second in a series of articles from Smarana Puntigam, a 20-year veteran of multidays, on dealing with the many challenges that a multi-day race can throw up... ...
Multi-day tips, part 1: How to avoid BLISTERS!
Smarana Puntigam has been running multiday races for over 20 years, including the 3100 mile race eight times. This is the first of a series of articles on dealing with common issues that crop up during multiday races... ...
Sri Chinmoy on how athletes inspire the world
Inspiration and enthusiasm ...
Sri Chinmoy on how meditation can benefit athletes
As well as being a fitness pioneer, Sri Chinmoy conducted peace meditations at the United Nations for 37 years. Here are some of his writings on how meditations can benefit athletes: ...
Sri Chinmoy on racing and competition
Sri Chinmoy completed 22 marathons, 5 ultras and countless sprinting and middle distance races over a career that lasted many decades. He always felt that running and meditation should go together, and that competitions and races could help one...
New women's world record in 3100 Mile Race
48 days and 14 hours after starting the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, Kaneenika Janakova,47, of Bratislava, Slovakia set a new women’s world record for the distance. Her final time was 48 days+14:24:10, averaging over 63 miles for...
Looking back: 40 years of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team
The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team celebrates its 40th birthday this year. Local Marathon Team director Sahishnu Sczcesiul writes about how the Marathon Team grew from Sri Chinmoy's philosophy of self-transcendence to the largest organiser of...
41st place in National hill climb 2016
Despite injury and cold, Tejvan Pettinger entered the National hill climb championship held on Bank Road, Matlock this Sunday. The former national champion (2013) finished in 41st place in a time of 2.40 - 22 seconds behind the winner Adam Kenway....
Surasa Mairer
Surasa Mairer (born Paula Mairer, March 6, 1959 in St. Justina, Austria ) currently lives in Vienna, Austria. ...
Ashrita Furman
Ashrita Furman (born 16 September, 1954, Brooklyn, New York) is a member of Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team and holder of the most Guinness World Records. He has broken over 600 Guinness World Records, of which over 200 are current records. (October, 2016)...
Ashprihanal Aalto
Ashprihanal Aalto is a member of the Sri Chinmoy marathon Team from Finland and a noted ultra-distance runner. He has won the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race on eight occasions, finishing a record 14 editions of the race. Ashprihanal...
2016 Sri Chinmoy 6-Hour Hero-Cup Standings
Blazing sun was the day’s companion for all runners at the Hero-Cup finals in Munich on September 10 with temperatures rising up to 30 degrees centigrade. The winner Christof Kühner was able to run 76.319 k which was the 3rd best performance on this...
Interview with Vajin Armstrong
Recently, Vajin Armstrong of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, won the prestigious Swiss Alpine Marathon in Davos. It was his fourth attempt at the gruelling race and he became the first New Zealander to win the international event. See: news item. ...
Yuri Trostenyuk wins Sri Chinmoy Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race
Yuri Trostenyuk, a plumber from Vinnitsa Ukraine, won the 2016 edition of the 3100 Mile Race after a closely fought contest with current record holder Asprihanal Aalto (Finland). ...
Sri Chinmoy's philosophy on running
Sri Chinmoy loved running. In his early years in India, he was an excellent sprinter; and in his mid-forties, he took up long distance running, completing 22 marathons and several ultra-marathons, with a best marathon of 3:55:07 in Toledo, Ohio...
Video: What does it mean to run for peace?
Ten years after Sri Chinmoy founded the Marathon Team, he initiated the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, a worldwide torch relay run that unites people from all walks of life around a shared wish for peace. This video contains some very touching...
The meaning of self-transcendence
A unique quality of the races organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team is their focus on self-transcendence, a philosophy powerfully advocated by Sri Chinmoy. In its simplest form self-transcendence involves seeking to do better than before -...
Suprabha Beckjord
Suprabha Beckjord (b. 1956, Washington D.C. US) one of the most prolific multi-day distance runners in the world. Between 1997 and 2009, Suprabha completed 13 consecutive editions of the Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race. In 1998 she set...
