NBC Today Show covers the 3100 Mile Race, July 2011

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Nirbhasa is from Ireland. He is an enthusiastic multi-day runner, having completed four times the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race - the longest race in the world.

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The 29th Annual Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

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About the author:

Nirbhasa is from Ireland. He is an enthusiastic multi-day runner, having completed four times the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race - the longest race in the world.

NBC Today Show covers the 3100 Mile Race

8/7/2011 NBC TODAY's Natalie Morales reports on the Self Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race, where participants run the distance from Boston to San Francisco around one city block in Queens, New York.

De Telegraff, Dutch National Newspaper, covers 3,100 Mile Race

8/6/2011 NEW YORK, Saturday – Perhaps it is the most striking Dutch sports achievement of the year. Runner Pradeep Hoogakker (33) ran 53 days in a row from 6 a.m. until midnight and covered nearly 5000 kilometres. Thursday night he became the first countryman to complete the 3100 Mile Race, the Mount Everest of ultramarathons.

RTL Nieuws does a story on Pradeep: 5000 kilometer rondjes rennen

RTL Nieuws 8/6/2011 A popular Netherlands news program with a viewership of over 4 milliion features Pradeep in New York...(Please note: the video clip is in Dutch.).

Runners Continue 52-Day Marathon Around Half-Mile Block

NY1 News 7/8/2011 People in Queens are running around in circles as part of the 15th annual self-transcendence race, an ultra marathon created by Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy as an exercise in mental and physical discipline...

3,100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race 2011 Enters 23rd Day In Queens

The Huffington Post: 07/06/11 The world's longest certified footrace is happening right now--on a single city block in Jamaica, Queens. The 15th Annual Self-Transcendence 3,100 mile race entered its 23rd day today. 10 runners, most of whom are disciples of Sri Chinmoy, a deceased Indian spiritual leader, are competing to complete 5649 laps around Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School in Jamaica, Queens of a .5488 mile course (883 meters) in a timespan of 52 days,

People in Queens Are Running Around a Single Block for 3,100 Miles

Emily Witt, The New York Observer: 7/6/2011: While you sit in your cubicle, a real battle is going on out in Jamaica, Queens, where the self-punishing disciples of Sri Chinmoy, a deceased Indian spiritual leader, are running around a single block for 3,100 miles ...

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About the author:

Rupantar has been the race director of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team since 1985, having been asked by Sri Chinmoy to serve in that capacity. As well as working on the big races the US Marathon Team organise each year - the 3100 Mile Race and the Six and 10 Day Race - he also spends a considerable amount of time archiving the Marathon Team's 40 year history on this website.

Nirbhasa Magee comes originally from Ireland, but has been living for the past couple of years in Iceland. Here are a couple of interviews he had before the race start:

100km a day for 52 days - interview with Morgunblaðið, one of Iceland's 2 main daily papers (that's Nirbhasa's picture on the left below the mast)
Irish man to attempt world's longest road race - interview with Irish Times