The New Road Ahead

Everyday is like a new road ahead as the runners learn to take the ultimate goal of 3100 miles as a series of daily and even hourly goals. Like a metaphor for this race this morning the main road on which the race is situated was newly paved. It was a long process but was soon over by the end of the afternoon. Like a newly paved, smooth and fresh road, the runners start each day with a fresh and positive attitude hopeful that the going will be smooth no matter what has happened in previous days.

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The 27th Annual Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race

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Nirbhasa is originally from Ireland but currently lives in Reykjavik, Iceland. 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.

Due to the pandemic, the 2020 3100 Mile Race was held in 2020 in Salzburg, Austria and Klaus Tiefenbrunner, a native Salzburger, had a front row seat! He spent many days at the race interviewing and filming the runners for an upcoming documentary, and became a real part of our 3100 race family.

Earlier this year, Klaus was invited to Samokov, Bulgaria to share his experiences of the 3100 mile race.

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'This race is all about how things that seem impossible actually can be very possible...'. So begins our interview with Jayasalini Abramovskikh, who in 2014 became the first female Russian finisher of the 3100 Mile Race. She describes how she found the prospect of asking for two months off her job as an economist in Moscow to participate in the race quite daunting, but how if you are meant to do something then it will all work out.

She also talks a little bit about her goals after the race: "For me the answer is to have that deep inner connection with my soul, with my inner being, at every moment of my life, as strong I had during the race. There, the conditions are so extreme, that every momnt is a sincere prayer, evey moment is a sincere cry, and every moment I felt my soul expressing itself in through me. Now i feel the real objective, the real goal for me now is to to be able to feel this during any moment during the whole life."

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