

"Run Like Fire Once More: Chasing perfection at the world's longest footrace".

^ Harper's Magazine Shaw, Sam (August 2007)."3,100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race 2011 Enters 23rd Day In Queens". ^ Huffington Post Mathias, Christopher ().Winners of 3100-mile race ( best times: colored background) Winners of 700, 1000, 1300, and 2700 mile races (predecessors of 3100-mile Race) Date An album of photo images is also published, several days a week, to record race activity. The race can be followed on the race website regular updates for the participants are published there, and a webcam has been operating during recent years. Runners have six hours a day for eating, washing, foot care and sleep. Vegetarian meals are provided by volunteers from an improvised kitchen runners need to eat constantly, burning 10,000 kcal a day. when you run 3,100 miles, you feel even better still". Runners have spoken of "the most overwhelming moment", "When you run a marathon, you feel good. Sri Chinmoy said that the Self-Transcendence challenges runners to "transcend their own previous capacity", "gain spiritual insights" and "overcome the entire world's pre-conceived notions of possibility".

Competitors run among people going about their everyday lives, dodging pedestrians and cyclists, and occasionally large crowds for various events or celebrations. The race is run daily, changing direction each day, whatever the weather, which has ranged from 38 ☌ (100 ☏) heat to torrential downpour-runners sometimes carry umbrellas. For their safety, only runners with proven ultra-running experience may compete. After the race director (Sahishnu Szczesiul): In the early years there were drug dealers in the area and lawlessness-people did not want to leave their cars, which would have been stripped-but this was later much improved.
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The race distance is the distance from the west to the east coast of the US, plus 11 marathons. The race for 2022 started on Sunday, September 4. The list of runners for 2022 has been established. In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic continues, causing the typical start date for the race, mid-June instead he was first started on Sunday, September 5, 2021. In 2020, it was held in Salzburg, Austria due to the COVID-19 pandemic from September 13 to November 3. The race has been run at this distance every year since. At the award ceremony that year he declared that the 1997 edition would be extended to 3,100 miles (4,989 km). In 1996 Sri Chinmoy created this event as a 2,700-mile (4,345 km) race. Since 1985 when the group first began holding races, the focus on the ultramarathon and multiday races has grown from the Ultra Trio, three races with staggered starts of 700, 10-mile duration that take place in September, and the spring races, which include the Self-Transcendence 6-Day race and the only annual race of its kind, the Self-Transcendence 10-Day race. Hence, the name "Self-Transcendence", which is appended to all the footraces that the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team hosts. The Self-Transcendence 3100 mile was founded by Sri Chinmoy out of his wish to create an opportunity for runners to discover the limits of their capacities and to try to go beyond them. The prize is typically a T-shirt, a DVD, or a small trophy.

to midnight, an average of 59.62 miles (95.95 km) every day. The runners have 52 days in which to complete the distance, running from 6 a.m. Runners negotiate 5,649 laps of one extended city block in Jamaica, Queens - 164th Place to Abigail Adams (84th) Avenue to 168th Street to Grand Central ParkwayĬoordinates: 40☄2′56″N 73☄7′59″W / 40.715556°N 73.799653°W / 40.715556 -73.799653 ( "Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race course")-a distance of 0.5488 miles (883 m), while the streets are in normal use. This multi-day race, which lasts several weeks, is hosted by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team and takes place in Queens, New York in the United States from June–August every year. The Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race is the world's longest certified footrace.
