In 2007, I started the longest race in the world for the fourth time. In short, I can say that it was the most mystical race – I got everything that I had only dreamed of all these years. I ran in the heat, was exceptionally consistent, ran the second half 15 hours faster than the first. All the findings that I described in my first three books have worked 100% in practice this year. The most interesting thing is that I had the feeling that it was all already planned in advance … and this is just the beginning.
The start of the run took place on June 17 at 6:04 am. At the start – 12 runners from 9 countries. Three – for the first time: Grahak, Vlastimil and Petr (winner of the 10-day race in New York this year). The distance was successfully covered by 11 runners.
It turned out that was the last 3100-Mile Race with physical presence of Sri Chinmoy. He passed away on Oct 11 later this year…
I finished on day 51 – August 6 at 18:35. Guru came to celebrate my finish in blue t-shirt and yellow shorts – colours of the Ukrainian flag.
3100-Mile 2007 results
Runner | age | country | result |
1. Ashprihanal Aalto | 36 | Finland | 43+04:26:32 Finnish record |
2. Srdjan Stojanovic
| 44 | Serbia-Montenegro | 46+02:46:35 |
3. Pranab Vladovich | 31 | Slovakia | 46+14:02:54 Slovak record |
4. Smarana Puntigam
| 36 | Austria | 48+04:13:54 Austrian record |
5. Ananda-Lahari Zuskin | 32 | Slovakia | 49+16:58:56 |
6. Grahak Cunningham | 30 | Australia | 50+03:02:26 Australian record |
7. Stutisheel Lebedev | 37 | Ukraine | 50+12:21:25 record of Ukraine |
8. Pranjal Milovnik
| 34 | Slovakia | 52+07:01:32 |
9. Peter Spasil | 28 | Czech Republic | 52+12:54:08 |
10. Abichal Watkins | 46 | Great Britain | 55+08:32:41 Great Britain record |
11. Suprabha Bjekord | 51 | USA | 58+07:54:27 11th finish in the raw! |
12. Vlastimil Dvorachek | 47 | Czech Republic | stop on day 11 |
Pictures from the 2007 Race
Interview with the runners on day 7 and 21
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