Two Miles 1982

Sri Chinmoy continues his 2-miles races for a brief period in 1982.

23.   20 February 1982
   Age Group Race
   Alley Pond Park, NY
   Time:   15:50
   Pace:   7:55
   Place:   1st (50 years and over)
           14th overall/31 starters
   Bodyweight: 145 pounds

24.   27 February 1982
   Age Group Race
   Cunningham Park, NY
   Time:   14:23
   Pace:   7:11
   Place:   22nd overall/32 starters
   Bodyweight: 140 pounds

25.   20 June 1982
   Queens Day Race
   Flushing Meadow Park, NY
   Time:   15:09
   Pace:   7:34
   Bodyweight: 138 pounds

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About the author:

Tejvan organises short-distance running and cycling races for the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in his home city of Oxford. He is also a very good cyclist, having won the National hill climb championships in 2013 and finished 3rd in the National 100 Mile Time Trials in 2014.

On 4 September, seven intrepid runners stood on the startline for the 25th edition of the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. First held in 1997, Sri Chinmoy founded the race as the ultimate test of self-transcendence - a race where runners compete not for outer glory, but the challenge of transcending their limits and experience.

In order to meet their goal of 3100 miles (4989km) in 52 days, the runners must log an average of 59.6 miles (95.9 km) per day. The runners begin at 6 a.m. and run for extended periods throughout the day, taking breaks as needed. If they want to, they can continue as late as 12 midnight when the course closes for the night.

To follow the race visit:

3100 Mile Home page - with two live webcams - during race hours (6.00 am NYT to 12 pm NYT)
Photo Gallery
Perfection Journey 3100 Mile Race coverage

The seven runners include:

Ananda-Lahari Zuscin (47) Kosics Slovakia (17 times entrant)
Andrea Marcato (39) Zurich Switzerland (2020 winner)
Harita Davies (47) Christchurch New Zealand (Women’s winner in 2019)
Lo Wei Ming (58) Taiwan (first time entrant)
Stutisheel Lebedev (51) Kiev Ukraine (over 10 finishes)
Takasumi Senoo (39) Japan (first time entrant)
Vasu Duzhiy (54) (Russia) three times men’s winner.

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This week, the Irish Examiner featured an interview with Nirbhasa Magee. Nirbhasa, from Ireland and currently living in Iceland, is a three-time finisher of Sri Chinmoy 3100-Mile Self Transcendence Race. Nirbhasa first completed the race in 2015, and last year (2019) he finished in second place with a personal best of 48 days+09:04:57. The article by Cathal Dennehy examines the inspiration and motivations which help Magee accomplish this Herculean effort.

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Nirbhasa finishes the 3100 Mile Race in 2019

In the interview, Nirbhasa explains how he copes with the intimidating distance of 3,100 miles.

“It was always very important to never think of the whole thing. Sometimes all you want is to get to the next break, then hopefully once you lay down a bit it’s a different race. You need a very good inner feeling for how far you can push it. It becomes a spiritual exercise. You have to run for the right reasons; if you run for ego or vanity, it’s reflected in the decisions you make and the outcomes of those decisions: injuries, heat exhaustion.”

For nearly two months of the year, Nirbhasa is running around one small half-mile loop in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Whilst this may seem very challenging from an outer perspective, Magee reveals how the complete immersion in the race, and the atmosphere of self-giving that surrounds it, gives him a profoundly different outlook on life when the race is over.

"If I have issues or something that keeps annoying me in normal life, when I finish the race that isn’t even a thing anymore. You do these races and realise there are very few real problems in my life. You get this real perspective that comes from inner peace.”

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