Day 5: Majority Rules
On a mostly cloudy day with nary a raindrop, eleven of 12 runners made it past the 60 mile barrier by end of day. The 12th runner was only 2 laps shy of 60 miles, and only two laps shy of being on pace to finish. But no one talks about finish in these...
Day 4: The Buildup Continues
The runners of the 3100 Mile Race face obstacles that most athletes rarely face in a running competition. The long days on the road spent moving, on concrete, in hot weather. The pressure of running 59.617 miles per day, required to be able to finish...
Day 3: Atmavir Shines; Surasa Excels
On a mostly sunny day in the mid-eighties, Czech Republican Atmavir Peter Spacil separated himself from first-day leader Ananda-Lahari Zuscin by running 73.53 miles. The Slovakian could only muster 67.5 to hold on to second place. Yuri Trostenyuk was...
Day 2: Two Men at the Top
After trailing Slovakian Ananda-Lahari Zuscin by a scant lap after one day, Atmavir Petr Spacil reversed the favor and tied Mr Zuscin with the same number laps after two days. Both men stand at 159.70 miles, just shy of 80 miles a day. Vasu Duzhiy...
16 Hours to Go: 10 Runners Ready
Continuos rain is music to your ears if you are sleeping, but the 10 runners about to embark on a journey of 3100 miles probably hope for cool, dry conditions. We might not see those conditions here in Jamaica, Queens, NY, home of the Sri Chinmoy Self...
3100 Mile Race:2017-18 Hours Before The Start
It is less than 18 hours before the start, and raining cats and dogs. All ten runners are in town, ready to tackle the challenge of running up to 18 hours every day- for 52 days. The lone non-starter is William Sichel, Scottish and UK champion, and...
Day 1
Twelve courageous runners stepped up to the start line and moved forward precisely at 6:00am as a crowd of 200 people watched the beginning of the 20th Annual Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race today. The setting is the same .5488 mile ...
The world's longest race has just started...
On 19th June, 12 intrepid runners lined up for the 20th edition of the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. Over the next seven and a half weeks, the runners will attempt to complete 3,100 miles - which requires an average of just under 60...
Coach Magazine profiles The Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race
This article from Coach Magazine, a UK online website and magazine concerned with fitness and health, examines the 2015 Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race. Included are interviews from 2014 finisher Willaim Sichel and associate race...
Interview with Suprabha Beckjord, 13-time finisher of the world's longest race
Suprabha Beckjord ran the world's longest race - the Sri Chinmoy Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race - every year from its beginning in 1997 to 2009, a total of 13 times. The footage for this interview was shot in 2010 and was originally intended to be...
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...
Pekka Ashprihanal Aalto Voted Best Finnish Male Ultra-runner for 2015
For his record breaking performance in the 19th Annual Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race in 2015, Pekka Ashprihanal Aalto was voted by his peers as the Best Finnish Male Ultra-runner for 2015. The award is presented by ultrajuoksu.fi ...
Ashprihanal Aalto Voted Best Finnish Male Ultra-runner for 2015
In 2015 Ashprihanal Aalto of Finland completed the 19th Annual Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race in the record breaking time of 40 Days, 9 hours, 6 minutes and 21 seconds for his 8th first place win. ...
3100 Mile Race over the years
Matthias van Baaren from Austria has given us many interesting graphics over the past couple of years, which helped inspire our charts display. He just sent us this interesting comparison of race times over the years, along with a few interesting...
Extremely extreme races: 3100 Mile Race featured in British Airways' In-Flight Magazine
The Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race was highlighted as one of '5 extremely extreme races' in the December 2015 issue of British Airways' 'High Life ' inflight magazine.
Daily Telegraph article: Nirbhasa talks about finishing 3100 mile race
Nirbhasa Magee from Ireland recently finished the 3100 mile Self-Transcendence Race on his first attempt. He became the first Irishman to finish the world's longest certified race - a unique race founded by spiritual Teacher Sri Chinmoy as one...
All Yearly Results of the 3100 Mile Race 1997 - 2015
List of the 3100 Mile Race Results: 1997-2015
3100 Mile Race 2015 - final results
Here are the daily results for all weeks of the 3100 Mile race. ...
Nirbhasa's 3100-Final Ceremony
Less than 6 hours before the official end of the 3100 mile race, Nirbhasa Magee completed his journey becoming the first Irish person to do so. By midnight Kaneenika had passed 3000 miles and finished with 3014. Ananda-Lahari ended the race with 2737...