3100

Day 1 started with a bang as the 12 runners headed in a clockwise formation around the .5488 of a mile loop. The 19th running of the world's longest footrace, the Self-Transcendence 3100, began as expected with the speediest moving quickly to the front. The sunny, windless Sunday around the neighborhood yielded five men past 80 miles, and nine of the dozen runners over 70 miles. Seven-time winner Ashprihanal Aalto from Helsinki,Finland  set an event record with 172 laps-(94.3936 miles), the most anyone  ever ran in this race in one day. Ukraine's Galya Balatskyy held on for second with 86.16 miles, and Vasu Duzhiy of Russia garnered 85.06 miles. On the distaff side Kaneenika Janakova logged 71.89 miles, just three laps better than Surasa Mairer of Vienna,Austria, who totalled 70.24 miles. Rain moved into the area the last three hours of the day, with heavy showers still raging as the stalwarts who remained until midnight got their money's worth of running. All twelve athletes ended above 60 miles, dreaming of more miles and more opportunities to explore their journey's facets. More later...