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self-transcendence 3100 mile race    It’s the longest race in the world. 3,100 miles (4,989 km). It was founded in 1996 by Sri Chinmoy, yoga and meditation master, with a view to giving runners the means to see where their limits where and how to surpass them. That’s this special race got the name Self Transcendence.

The race is held in Jamaica, Queens, in New York. Runners do 5,649 laps of the circuit made up a block that runs from 164th Place to Abigail Adams (84th) Avenue to 168th Street to Grand Central Parkway. The circuit is 0.5488 miles long (883 metres) and the runners have 52 days to finish the race. That’s an average of 52.62 miles (95.95 kms) a day. The world record is held by Madhupran Wolfang Schwerk. In 2006, he finished the race 41 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes and 29 seconds. The women’s record is held by Suprabha Beckjord, who did it in 49 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes and 54 seconds. Amongst these ultra-marathon yogis Asprihanal Aalto, who has participated in 11 editions of the race, winning seven of them, is also very worthy of mention.

This year’s edition takes place between June the 14th and August the 4th. You’re still in time to put your name down.

http://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/