by Sharani | Jun 19, 2014 | 3100 Mile Race, Suprabha Beckjord
I arrived in New York from Rhode Island the night before the race started, making it in time for part of the Saturday evening meditation function. Later that night, well after midnight, I set my alarm with the hopes to attend the start of this 18th annual 3100 Race...
by Sharani | Oct 10, 2011 | 3100 Mile Race, mahasamadhi, Sri Chinmoy
5 plus 1 = inspiration and fun I just turned 51 about a week ago and at first it all seemed rather anticlimactic after turning the big 50 last year. Last night I was reading in Live in the Eternal Now, a new book of previously unpublished talks given over the years by...
by Sharani | Jul 23, 2011 | 3100 Mile Race, Surasa Mairer
The race is called “The Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race” and to run that distance in 52 days says it all. I can personally attest to witnessing the runners in action with my own four eyes (yes I wear glasses) on several occasions during the last 15...
by Sharani | Aug 15, 2010 | 3100 Mile Race, Backwards Running, Surasa Mairer
Surasa Mairer, a 51 year old ultra runner from Austria, runs circles around the competition. Backwards and forwards she forges new territory for women runners and shows women and men alike new horizons of possibility. She runs backwards and forwards literally. She set...
by Sharani | May 31, 2009 | 3100 Mile Race, Suprabha Beckjord, The Spirit of a Runner by Jessie Beers-Altman
Last night I watched a fantastically inspiring documentary about one of my all-time heroes, a record-breaking multi-day runner named Suprabha Beckjord. A gift shop owner from Washington, DC, she has run in the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race every summer for the...
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