Group of Ten - First Week at 3100 Mile Race

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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.

The Group of Ten was moving along well, until a strong rain storm swept over the race around 3:30 local time (around 9-hours race time) by evening the rain became heavier and cooler. It was a reminder that the weather in September is not always clear blue skies like the start of the race. But, the 3100 Mile Race has innumerable challenges.

THE FIRST WEEK AT THE SRI CHINMOY 3,100 MILE RACE

Time sometimes seems to stand still at the 3,100-mile race, yet here we are on day 8 of the 2025 Sri Chinmoy 3,100 mile race with one week completed.

A short four miles jog away at nearby Flushing Meadow Park, the US Open Tennis has worked its way through its second week. Another thrilling final between two global sports superstars, Jannick Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will draw a full house to the Arthur Ashe Stadium and a global audience of millions will tune in to watch or listen as the clash unfolds.

By contrast, here at the Sri Chinmoy 3,100-mile race for the last 7 days at 84th Avenue in Queens, our ten intrepid adventurers have been steadily circling the block of the Thomas Edison High School, clocking up the miles, taking part in the world’s longest certified road race.

They are watched by a mere handful of enthusiastic volunteers and supporters at the race HQ, and a similar handful of ultra enthusiasts are watching the live webcam and the scoreboard as it updates to the world. Not for them the explosive serves, smashes and volleys of the tennis court. Our runners are more concerned with conserving energy and running as conservatively and consistently as possible. That is the essence of Multi-day Ultra Running.

The first week has seen fine sunny days, very warm in the afternoons with no rain until late on the 7th evening, just as the day was ending.In general statistics for the first week of the race our 10 runners have collectively recorded 8,119 laps of the 0.548406 mile/0.882 km loop around Thomas Edison High School with a cumulative mileage of 12,396 Miles/19,536.792Km. Four of our runners have reached 500 miles/8,046 km with 5 more passing that milestone in the next 24 hours.

With the exception of Ananda-Lahari Zuscin, all are above or comfortably in touch with the red baseline daily average of 59.8 miles a day that is needed to reach the goal in the 52 day cutoff. SEE Stutisheels video for some more statistics of the first week.

The outer statistics are like the ripples on the surface of the sea. Beneath the surface is a vast ocean. Likewise the ripples only give one idea of the story. Inwardly, all of the runners are experiencing all manner of challenges to deal with.

Week one is all about adaptation as body mind and soul adjust from normal daily life to a daily routine of just a few hours of sleep, a daily schedule of covering between 57 and 75+ miles a day. All broken up with snacks and meals on the move, plus powernaps and massage breaks. It's a tough, almost Spartan existence.

Like the first 5 to 10km of a marathon, they are easing themselves into the race, establishing their own routines, and for the experienced ones, remembering old routines and for the first time runners, figuring out, and inwardly coming to terms with the enormity of this wonderful challenge.

The professional tennis players at this weeks US open, just like the amateur 3,100 mile runners, are all striving to achieve their own goals and life-defining moments.

Next week or the week after, the tennis players will move on to another tournament in their schedule

For the 3,100 runners, several more weeks of circling the block are the schedule.

Meanwhile, Ananda-Lahari went past 400 miles in 174:06:56:39. Then there were five runners who reached 700km- Daniela Bojila ran 700 km in 168: 00:36:14: Mahasatya reached 700km in 170:02:15:01-Alex Ramsey reached 700 km in 170:02:28:42. Milan Javornický reached 700 km in 174:06:09:12/ and Harita Davies reached 700km in 175:07:09:00.

Adrian Papuc reached 800 km in 192:00:20:17, then 500 miles in 193:01:00:01.
Vasu Duzhiy reached 800 km in 195:03:43;08: then 500 miles in 192:04:24:27.
Geng Lucong reached 800 km in 178:10:41:50: and 500 miles in 179:11:30:37.
Andrea Marcato reached 900 km in 174:06:37:15.

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Andrea Marcato will be three days away from finishing the 3100 Mile Race - for him the fourth time as the first finisher. He will most likely finish in the early part of the afternoon on Thursday - Day 44 of the 52-day race. Today, Day 41, Andrea reached the 2,900-mile mark - in 40 days +12:24:18. The historical landmark of Day 41 is that in 2015, in the summer version of the event, the 16-time finisher, and eventual nine-time winner - Ashprihanal Aalto from Finland, became the only man to ever finish the 3100 Mile Race on the 41st day. His time of 40 days+09:06:21 is the finest effort in this event ever seen. He averaged 76.776 miles / 123.559 km per day.

Back to today's reality, Vasu Duzhiy reached 4000km in 40 days+00:29:25. Later in the day Vasu passed 2,500 miles in 40 days+04:14:27. Vasu is solidly perched in fourth place in this year’s race. Wei-Ming Lo reached 2700 miles in 40 days+01:46:40. He is pushing himself closer from third place, to within 12 miles of second place. Adrian Papuc reached 2,000 miles for the first time in 40 days+10:01:48, the farthest he had ever run.

Mahasatya Janczak reached 4,000 km for the first time in his running career, passing 40 days+15:31:47. Mahasatya is firmly in fifth place and is probably ready to reach his goal if his health and physical strength are maintained for the duration.

Harita Davies is running her 4th 3100-mile race

One word. RESILIENCE. When you look up its meaning, one definition of resilience is.

“The ability to withstand adversity and bounce back from difficult life events”.

All the 3100 runners have this quality in abundance. They are facing an abundance of adversity, yet they seem to bounce back. Harita is no exception. She has a smile on her face most of the time. The smile is replaced, by a “resilient, “steely“ look of determination at others. Her overall attitude can be summed up by a comment she made to the lap counting crew the other day when the heavens decided to open and pour down on the runners.

“You don’t know what you are missing “she shouted to the race crew, safely undercover in the counting tent.

Harita is a three-time finisher of the 3100-mile race, having previously run in 2017, 2019, and 2021 2021. She has finished on all three occasions with the best time of 50 Days, 13 Hours, 23 Minutes, 14 Seconds You could say she is well aware that she is operating close to “The Line” this year. “The line” is that mythical average daily total needed to run 3,100 miles in the 52-day cut-off. The daily average needed is 59.6 miles, and at the end of today, day 41, “The line” is drawn at 2,443.66 Miles. Most nights, like other runners, she has to run as close to midnight as possible to ensure she maintains her daily mileage to stay above “The Line, “often having to push the last two hours to reach her daily goal. Starting just before 11 p.m. each night, runners start asking, “How long to go now?"

They could go home to their beds whenever they wanted to, and some runners, having had a good day and achieved their daily goal, indeed do. Most though, want to see the day through till the course closes at Midnight. In that last hour, their brains are usually working overtime. They try to work out how many laps can be achieved in that final sixty minutes. Some just need to maintain what they are doing, while others will noticeably up their pace a little to eke out an extra lap or two.

Harita and others often go right down to the wire. Tonight, like most nights with an hour to go, she imperceptibly ups her pace slightly and is lapping around a minute faster. She decides at 11.40 that despite the fatigue from being on her feet since 6 a.m., she can manage two more laps, but will probably have to speed up to make it count, for if all laps are to count, they must be completed by midnight.

With a few minutes to go to midnight, we are staring into the darkness down the street as figures appear. Harita finally appears. It looks like she will just be inside the midnight deadline. She crosses the line at 11.57 to clock 59.6 miles for the day. Perfect timing, and a reminder of the resilience in all of us. At 6 am tomorrow morning, we go again.

(Reports by Sahishnu and Tarit)

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Day 40 of the longest race showed another surprise, as Andrea Marcato ran 66.9 miles, revealing 248.29 miles left to run before his journey is over. The surprise was that Wei-Ming Lo and Tsai Wen-Ya, the two fast runners from Taiwan, each ran 132 laps- 72.4 miles. It is very rare to see a woman run over 70+ miles so late in a multiday event- especially when the day is the 40th in a race. Wei-Ming Lo had run +70 miles the previous 11 days and had become the day leader for those individual days. Today, Wei-Ming had company, as Wen-Ya equalled Wei-Ming. She also passed another milestone, reaching 2700 miles in 39 days +16:20:20 (August 30- to October 8, 2023). The previous best was 42 days +11:00:01 by Kaneenika Janakova from Slovakia (18 June to 30 July, 2017).

Before stepping onto the start line of the Sri Chinmoy 3100 mile race with its potential 52 days cut off, Mahasatya had never run further than a 10-day race. His 20-year running journey has evolved slowly, and led him to run a few 24-hour races before tackling the Sri Chinmoy 6-day race in 2015. He seemed to enjoy it as the following year, he ran the Sri Chinmoy 10-day race. One more six day and one more ten day would follow before he felt his body was adapting to the long multi-day events, and he knew that he was ready for an attempt at the 3,100. Having said that, the step up from a 10-day and running 1035 km to an event almost five times as long, both in distance and duration, does require a slight leap of faith.

He is now 40 days into the 3100 and has reached over 2431 miles/3,913 kilometres, nearly four times as far as he has covered in a race before and maybe further than he ever imagined possible a few years ago. The 48-year-old, originally from Lublin in Poland, looks pretty much in control the whole race, feeling his way through the early days, knowing what he had to do to keep above the cut-off line. He seems to have worked out what his own “red lines” are. Although he still has work to do, with less than 700 miles to go, he can sense the end is now in sight.

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Some strong rain pounded the Queens area Saturday morning, but the runners still continued to carry on during the 39th day. Andrea Marcato the Italian champion moved within 315.9 miles away from winning the 3100 Mile Race for a fourth time. Second place overall, and first lady in the Race ran within 69.1 miles. Tsai Wen-Ya continued her race with another 69.1 mile effort, She is about two days and a quarter behind Andrea Marcato. The third place overall runner is still putting down a tremendous list with 11 straight days of running over 70 miles each day. Wei-Ming Lo did another total of 79.5 miles today. Some of his laps were 5:00 minutes for a lap, or even a few of the laps were in the four minute and 40 second range. He has now moved within 14 miles of Tsai Wen-Ya. Just a few weeks ago Wei-Ming Lo had been nearly 75 miles behind the awesome Taiwanese first timer in the 3100 Mile Race.

Lo Wei-Ming seems to be getting stronger as his race enters the final third, For the last eleven days, from day 29 through to day 39, he has run the highest daily mileage of all the runners. He has hit over 70 miles a day through that streak. After a couple of days hovering in the low to mid-70s, he threw in a couple of 77-mile days before yesterday, hitting 79.5 miles, the highest total for anyone since the first few days of the race. In the history of the race, several runners have run negative splits, which translated, means running the second half faster than the first. The idea of running negative splits in a half or full marathon is something many runners aspire to, and often try to execute by careful pacing in the early stages. The idea that it is possible in a race of this magnitude to run negative splits, seems to defy conventional thinking. Surely, the cumulative strain of the daily mileage must induce long-term fatigue, resulting in a gradual slowing down as the race progresses.

Many things about this event defy convention though, as seemingly impossible boundaries are pushed back daily by all the runners. Some runners naturally grow into the race, and with careful pacing, nutrition and rest, can indeed get stronger as the race progresses. Endurance coaches talk of adaptation in a marathon training phase, where the body adapts to a higher workload as the training progresses. Physically, it seems logical that the human body, over a few weeks, can indeed adapt to the rigours of the 3100-mile race. Wei Ming is an exceptionally experienced multi-day runner, but over and above that, he has a very childlike demeanour. It is a quality that is very useful in a long multi-day event. While some of the runners appear to retreat inside themselves at times, concentrating on dealing with the apparent rigours of the race, he seems to be like a little kid going out to play each day, with endless spontaneous energy, just being in the moment and finding joy and inspiration in all around him. While many find the concept of running around a city block for a few weeks daunting, Wei-Ming is embracing it, and finding the energy from somewhere inside himself to keep pushing his boundaries in the process.

(Reports by Sahishnu and Tarit)

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Andrea Marcato reached the 2700 mile mark today, passing the historical number in 37 miles + 12:17:05. He is less than 400 miles to go to reach the finish line. He is expecting to finish on Thursday the 12th of October. Wei-Ming Lo reached the 4000 km mark in 37 days +04:24:36, his fastest 4000 km mark - in a total of three 4000 tests. Today he won the daily total list again, leading the day with 74.6 miles. He has run 10 straight days over 70+ miles. To top off his day, Wei-Ming passed 2.500 miles in 37 days + 07:36:27.

Today Milan Javornicky passed 3500 km in 37 days+08:22:31. Tsai Wen-Ya reached 2500 miles in 37 days+00:57:25, a new women’s best. The previous fastest mark was 39 days+08:43:45, compiled by Kaneenika Janakova in June 14 to 17 July in 2017.

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Tsai Wen-Ya reached another spectacular milestone today. She went past the previous fastest time for women on 4000km. Her time was 36 days+14:41:27. She surpassed the previous best by Kaneenika Janakova of 39 days+:04:08:48 in the summer of 2017. This was the farthest that Wen-Ya had ever run before — another extraordinary performance for the great runner from Taiwan.

Speaking of extraordinary, last night Lo Wei-Ming ran 145 laps (79.5 miles) to continue his streak of nine straight over-70 miles efforts. Yesterday it was the most he had run in the 3100 Mile Race in the latter part of the event. He has closed the gap from being below Tsai Wen-Ya by 70 miles, to now being 31 miles behind. There are still 15 days left in the race, but regardless of whether Wei-Ming wants to catch the remarkable lady ahead of him, or just show what he can do on any given moment - this still adds to the thrill of the Taiwanese runners as they both see what they can do.

Tsai Wen-Ya is a small, quiet, diminutive figure, but inside has an iron will that has propelled her to 5 multi-day world records already. With an excellent relaxed form and short economical strides, she almost glides over the ground, with very light steps. There is no sign of overstriding. Her feet seemingly landing perfectly under her body at each step. From 6 am each morning until around 11 pm each night when she goes home, she is on the move. Every runner has different strategies with breaks of anything from 15 minutes to an hour factored into their days. Power naps offer their well-known restorative energies. Of all the runners apart from Andrea, Wen-Ya stops the least, perhaps 3-4 times each day to change shoes or clothing, occasionally eating while sitting for no more than 5 minutes before heading out again. She does not sleep or even take the shortest of power naps. Being able to deal with sleep deprivation is indeed a boon for any multi-day runner, enabling them to max out each day's mileage.. !

Her daughter, Szuhan and son-in-law Benoit are her full time dedicated crew for the entire race. The trio seem to have a remarkable bond. They are always there waiting, with every drink and snack, executing what is obviously a well-planned and rehearsed operation. Remarkably, on Day 37, she is moving very much as she did on Day 1!

Today Tsai Wen-Ya has set her 5th world record on Day 36 of the Sri Chinmoy 3,100 mile race for 4,000km. As is customary in the race as landmarks are reached, she pauses momentarily by the scoreboard and with folded hands offers her pranam of thanks for getting this far. The time, subject to ratification, will be a Taiwanese, Asian area and world-best performance. The experienced multi-day runner has already set records at 2,500 km and 3,000km as well as 1,500 and 2,000 Miles in this race. Wen-Ya is currently averaging around 67 miles a day, and if she can maintain this pace will, in all likelihood, surpass the current women’s record for the race distance along with the distances of 2,500 miles 3,000 miles and 5,000 km. Tomorrow on day 38 the 2,500 mile landmark will be reached.

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Today, during the 36th day of the 52-day 3100 Mile Race, Tsai Wen-Ya, the second overall runner and stunning woman athlete from Taiwan, went past 2400 miles, reaching this mark in 35 days +10:20:29. She passed the former record holder Kaneenika Janakova, who held the previous mark of 37 days+16:49:20 from 18 June to 25 July 2017. She is on course to set new world bests at 4,000km.

Wei-Ming Lo, the 59-year-young runner, ran 141 laps today (77.3 miles/ {124.4 km}. He has run over 70 miles in the last 8 days, including two of those 8 days going over 77.3 miles. Tsai Wen-Ya also passed 3900 km today, setting the mark in 35 days+16:23:30. She passed the previous record held by Kaneenika Janakova, which was set from 18 June to 26 July 2017. Finally, Andrea Marcato has only 518.82 miles remaining before he crosses the finish line for the fourth time. He will be undefeated the four years he has tested himself in the longest race.

Yang Huang-Lan, or Nina as everyone calls her, has struggled the last few days. The repetitive nature of running so far on a hard surface affects all the runners in some way. They all know and realise any one of them could succumb to an injury. Over 52 days, trying to balance running the required daily mileage with taking on enough nutrients to keep the body strong, while also aiming to have as much rest as is feasible to allow for some recovery each day, is all part of the event's physical challenge. Nina developed a slight hip flexor strain on Day 33 which progressed quickly. The race medics and masseurs have done their best to work some magic, but in the end, rest was needed to effect proper healing. She is resting but still comes to the race each day for a few hours to offer encouragement to the other runners. If things progress well she would like to return and run again. Although she has fallen behind the required daily cut-off to reach 3100 miles, the essence of just experiencing 52 days at his event, whatever distance you cover, is long established. Time will tell for there is always a fine line between bravado and good decision making!

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Four runners reached a total of five special distances today. Milan Javornicky reached 2000 miles in 34 days +09:25:02. He also managed another 60+ day.

Milan Javornicky acts like the quiet man of the 3100-mile race. Some runners are talkative and will crack jokes with the helpers, wanting the lap counters to relay their lap total each loop. Milan says little as he circles the course, and asks not to be told his daily lap total unless he asks for it. After reaching the goal of 2,000 miles, he was asked how he felt. The 49 year old from Celovice, in the Czech Republic said ‘I don't really feel anything! I am just keeping my eyes on the golden goal.” After pausing a while he continued,” You feel something, but it is just like reaching a hut on a long journey and you still have many miles to travel” He has reached 2,000 miles before, when he ran in the 3100 mile race held in Salzburg Austria in 2020. His time in Salzburg was 38 days 14 Hours 11 Minutes and 08 Seconds. When told he has just improved his 2,000 mile time by just over 4 days, he smiles and says “ Ah! I was carrying a small injury then” It was an injury that led to him only reaching 2,700miles in Salzburg, although he stayed the course for the full 52 days. With 17 days still to go, time will tell if he will reach the "Golden Goal “ this year.

The next milestone was 2000 miles reached by Jason Lester. who topped 34 days+14:58:40 - it is his farthest race in a race so far, though he has run 2000 miles before in your other adventures running across continents. Asked whether this one felt different? He replied “This one is a little more intense, as it’s the first time I have done it in a race situation.

The next total milestone was 2300 miles by Lo Wei-Ming, who passed the mark in 34 days+15:07:01. Lo Wei-Ming has reached six day best totals in a row, today reaching 74.6 miles.

Andrea Marcato, the leader since Day 1 this year, reached 4000km by passing 34 days+11:26:29. This was his second-best 4000km total, just only one hour slower than his best total from last year in 2022.

Later in the day Andrea Marcato passed another landmark of 2,500 miles. He now has less than 600 miles to reach the finish line for the 3100-mile race. His 2,500-mile time was 34 days+15:27:00. He is now about 8 and a half days away from the finish line.

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Mahasatya Janczak reached 2000 miles today in 33+03:00:32 the first time he did the double kilo. He became only the 2nd Polish athlete to do so - after finishing the epic distance he modestly stated “it’s a nice feeling”

About seven hours later, Harita Davies reached 2000 miles in 33+10:21:32. This was Harita’s fourth time to the 2000-mile mark. Lo Wei-Ming took the day leader honours with 75.7 miles, his sixth straight Day Honor. Milan Javornicky moved into seventh place overall with a 60.9 mile day.

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After 33 days on the road in the 3100-mile race, the runners begin their October push to the final totals, with 19 days remaining. Lo Wei-Ming led the day today with 74.0 miles.

The top five runners are running ahead of the 59.7 mile daily average needed to finish. But, both Harita Davies and Nina Huang-Lan Yang are in striking distance, should favourable circusmtances appear.

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Wei Ming Lo is gaining strength and inspiration as the race progresses. After 32 days of non-stop running, he managed an incredible 77 miles yesterday. First time entrant Mahasatya Janczak has also had a good race. Yesteday he passed the 3,100 km mark and now he just needs to convert it into 3,100 miles. Tsai Wen-Ya reached her 54th birthday this morning, and maintained her 68.6 mile day for two in a row. The rain has disappeared for the next several days, so mile totals should increase. 20 days remain before the longest race takes a long break.

But he remains on track. Every runner is making progress both inner and outer, inspiring those who watch from around the world.

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The race was clobbered last night with intense rain, then in the middle of the morning today the amount of rain equaled between six and eight inches. The top three runners again led the push to gain as many laps as possible. No surprise, but Wai-Ming Lo led everybody today. He reached an amazing 75.1 miles, as well as reaching the 2000-mile mark, getting there in 30 days+14:58:55.

It was not his best mark, but he was only six hours slower than his best. He had another stack of fast running laps to gain the Day Leader again.

Harita Davies reaches 1,800 Miles in the pouring rain.

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The overcast and cloudy skies gave the runners a chance to put up some good numbers, but the dark skies led to a flow of rain, which lasted until midnight. Tsai Wen-Ya went past the 2000 mile mark in a new women’s total- 29 days +12:25:21 before the rain started to fall. She passed the former leader Kaneenika Janakova, who had created the best in 2016. The Slovakian had led all women in 31 days+05:54:14. Wei-Ming Lo was again the Day leader, as he reached 71.3 miles. He passed the 3000km early in the day- his third time to reach that fine distance.

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The top three runners today showed their outer and inner strength. Men’s Leader Andrea Marcato and Women's leader Tsai Wen-Ya both touched 130 laps (71.3 miles), though Wen-Ya went home an hour ahead of Andrea. The third savant of the group- Wei-Ming Lo- reached 135 laps- 74.0 miles today. He thrilled the counters and officials, running seven or eight laps in five minutes, plus ten or 20 seconds. He was smooth as a daisy for several hours this afternoon and evening - a superb display from the 59-year–old athlete. The secret reason for the speed display- Wei-Ming was impressed with Wen-Ya and her brilliant race so far. Today, Wen-Ya passed 1900 miles in a new women’s total of 28 days+04:50:07. She eclipsed the effort of Kaneenika Janakova- the current all-time record holder - who had run 30 days+03:05:35 in the summer of 2017.

The pleasant weather and no rain allowed the runners to do their best.

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Andrea Marcato, 41. from Italy, but living in Zurich, Switzerland went past the 2000 Mile mark, reaching the distance in 27 days+11:45:44. It was his fastest in four performances, the previous best was in 2022. This year it was about 25 minutes faster than last year. He is fourth fastest overall, and moving well throughout the colder, windy post-summer weather.

Tsai Wen-Ya, 53, from Taiwan and a great new long-distance athlete, captured the fastest female performance of 3000km in history. Her Record time was 27 days + 13:20:02. She bettered the previous effort from Kaneenika Janakova of Slovakia in 2017, which was 29 days + 03:10:18.

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Andrea Marcato has run over 70 miles in six of the last seven days, and tomorrow he should reach the 2000-mile mark. This will be his fourth time to reach this significant landmark. He has gone past 70 miles in 24 days of the total 27 days of the race.

Tsai Wen-Ya has gone past 65 miles in 24 of the 27 days she has tested. Today she went past two women’s running landmarks - both set by American All-Time Hero Suprabha Beckjord.

In the evening Wen-Ya passed the 1800-mile mark in 26 days+14:31:45. The previous best was 28 days+10:29:41. In about an hour later she passed the 2900 km mark in 26 days+15:01:43. The previous best was 28 days+11:03:10.

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Today Andrea Marcato went past 3000km for the fourth time in his multiday running career. His time was 25:14:00:57- which was only 6 minutes and six seconds slower than his best time set in 2022. If you consider the five days of 92-95 degree heat, and over two days of Tropical rainstorms and strong winds, Andrea indeed is a powerful runner, untouched by nature's tests so far.

Earlier this morning, Tsai Wen-Ya reached the 1700 mile mark, her second place overall was highlighted by the time of 25 days 05:43:59. The previous women’s best time was 27:00:38:06, placed by American record holder Suprabha Beckjord. That was performed in 1998.

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The end of day 26 is the halfway point in the race of 52 days. So far seven runners have passed the half-way mileage. Milan and Jason should hopefully pass this milestone today.

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The rains came and the winds started bothering things. But the runners maintained their equilibrium and ran as well as they could. Andrea Marcato led the way with 67.5 miles. Sunday he most likely will reach 3000 km and might pass his personal best if he grabs it before 7:54 pm. Tsai Wen-Ya could pass the women's 1700 mile record, set in 1998 by Suprabha Beckjord, in a time of 27 days+00:38:06. Wen-Ya ran nearly 67 miles yesterday, so rain does not seem to slow her at all.

Today Mahasatya ran past 1500 miles - the first time he had ever run this far in his career and has moved into fifth place overall.

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As expected, Tsai Wen-Ya passed a mark of 2500km in a tremendous effort, reaching that mark in 23 days+ 02:59:13, a 32-hour improvement in Suprabha Beckjord’s work from 1998 in a summer warm spell. What is less known is that Wen-Ya also passed the 1600-mile mark set by Kaneenika Janakova from Slovakia - (set in 2017 in 25:07:16:22) which was done in 23 days +14:52:23 (to be verified) later that evening.

Wen-Ya ran 68.6 miles today, and it was good to have a good day today, for a tropical storm in the nearby ocean areas just outside Jamaica and Queens in general will be hit with 4 to 6 inches of rain and strong winds in the next two days or so. We shall see what happens. Stay dry people of Queens, New York.

Yolanda Holder, Vajra and *Gary Corbitt*

The race was also visited by a few good friends. - Yolanda Holder who entered the race twice and finished on her first effort in 2017 in a time of 51 days+17:00:13. Also we were very happy to see Gary Corbitt, son of legendary Ted Corbitt. Both Ted and Gary have been great friends and supporters of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team over the years. Gary Corbitt is a great historian of ultra-running. He is both the curator of the Ted Corbitt Archives and the official historian for the National Black Marathoner’s Association.

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Andrea Marcato arrived at his halfway mark in 21:03:38:40 miles on Wednesday morning. It was his fastest halfway. He has continued to keep is excellent pace going, managing three straight days with over 71 miles.

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Tsai Wen-Ya is establishing some new women’s best results for partial distances. Friday morning she will most likely pass one of the great woman distance runners, who happens to be the American All-Time great Suprabha Beckjord, who reached 2500 km in 24:11:11:31. As many people know about Suprabha, she was a 13-time finisher of the 3100 Mile Race, and held the fastest time for women for 17 years.

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The two leading runners Andrea Marcato and Wen-Ya Tsai both managed 70 miles +, with Wen-Ya really growing into the race and getting stronger as the days pass. On day 22 out of 52, Andrea Marcato, the race leader has now passed the half-way mark and is making excellent progress. The top nine runners all managed to complete 60 miles - the magic goal for remaining on target to finish the distance within 52 days.

In the early evening, three runners all passed the 1,300 mile mark very close to each other - Mahasatya Janczak, Nina Huang-Lan Yang and Harita Davies.

Milan Javornicky and first time runner Jason Lester should pass the mark today. The 1,300 Mile mark is significant because the 1,300 Mile race was the forerunner of the 3,100 Mile Self Transcendence Race. But, yesterday's goals are now stepping stones on the journey for greater self-transcendence - a defining feature of the 3,100 Mile Race.

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