Day 29

The top three were just that today- the only ones to reach 60 miles and beyond. Vasu has an 81 mile lead over Nirbhasa Magee, who is back to his normal self. A stomach bug hampered him for a few days but the bug has run its course. Not so for a few other runners, who had near devastating results today, but are still hopeful of progress. Harita Davies, Yolanda Holder and Nidhruvi Zimmerman all were feeling ill, worn-out and rundown- who would not be after thousands of laps around the same concrete colosssus. But hope springs eternal in this race- as long as there is another day. Actually 23 more days remain. Let's hope they can muster the physical and psychic energy to move forward yet again.

Vasu Duzhiy-1900 miles-28+08:41:57

Nirbhasa Magee-1800 miles- 28+02:46:40

Kaneenika Janakova-1800 miles- 28+11:28:01

Sergey Kuzmin-1600 miles-28+13:31:00

Andrey Andreev-1600 miles- 28+16:55:44

Nidhruvi Zimmerman-1500 miles-28+01:52:50

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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.

Ashprihanal Aalto was the day's leader with 71.2 miles, his second consecutive 70 mile plus day. Andrea retains the overall lead with an impressive 1695.6 miles after day 23.

It is still a 43-mile mountain for Andrea. The Italian reached the 2700 km mark in 22:12:57:24, which was his fastest of the five times Andrea reached this mark in the 3100 Mile Race. Radu Budan went past the 1500-mile mark in 22:12:57:24, becoming the first Moldovan runner to reach that distance. He is still staying in sixth place with a very steady effort that he has designed for himself. Annabel Hepworth from Australia has become a strong runner as she glides through the first three weeks of the test. She reached the 2300km mark in 22:13:01:35.Lo Wei-Ming from Taiwan reached the halfway mark in 22:11:34:21. Within an hour or so Wei-Ming passed the 2500km mark in 22:12:33:32. He is still holding on to third place.

Particularly impressive this year have been the first-time entrants, Radu Budan, Budjargal Byambaa and Annabel Hepworth. They are all averaging over the magic 59.6 mile average which is necessary to finish. Budjargal is fighting back after a great start and then injury. Radu and Annabel have been impressively consistent quietly clocking up the miles. There is a long way to go, but the miles are steadily accumulating.

This race requires patience and perseverance and all the runners are displaying that during the first three weeks. It is these qualities which inspire people following the race from all around the world.

Patience and perseverance
Can accomplish
The impossible.

Sri Chinmoy

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Andrea Marcato continued his relentless running chores to reach another excellent day of 74.0 miles, done in a list of 135 laps. He also reached the total of 1600 miles, a strong total in 21:10:30:18.The Italian has taken over the lead in his fifth 3100 races.

A surprise today was the leading total of 146 laps performed by Budjargal Byambaa, which placed him back in the early days of this 28th 3100 Mile Race. He woke up and moved out of his smaller totals from several of the last two weeks. Today he was the leader with 80.1 miles. Along the way Budjargal reached 1,400 miles for the first time in his effort of 21:12:53:03. This was another national record for Mongolia.

Another fine effort came from 60-years young runner Lo Wei-Ming, the Taiwan national hero who came through the 1500 miles in 21:16:53: 03 ,which contributed Wei-Ming’s effort to reach 68.6 miles, and still in a solid third place.

Ananda-Lahari Zuscin became the eleventh runner to pass the 1000 mile mark. Every once in a while Ananda-Lahari is able to put in extraordinary efforts in a single, and fashions a good effort to make a mark. Remember, Ananda-Lahari has six complete finishes of running the races over the 20 years. His time was 21:01:49:30 today.

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