The Fifth Annual Self Transcendence Invitational Marathon, April 11, 2012
Sri Chinmoy loved the challenge of the marathon distance and in fact completed 22 marathons in a period from March 1979 through February 1983. In deference to his fastest marathon time of 3:55:07 (ran on March 25, 1979 in the Heart-Watchers Marathon in Toledo, OH) Every April an invitational marathon is held only for members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team who have ran faster than 3:55:07 and within the past 5 years. This will be the 5th Annual Self Transcendence Invitational Marathon, held at Flushing Meadow Corona Park and will start at 9 a.m.
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The following are the words to a song Sri Chinmoy wrote in honor of the marathon:
"Marathon, marathon, marathon,
Eternity's dawn!
O kindling, streaming flames
Of great Olympic Games,
O Greece-world vision-height,
Cosmos-oneness-delight!
Humanity's transcendence-race,
Divinity's supreme Grace."
