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In the Media - 2011 |
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“ NBC Today show covers the 3100 mile race”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. NBC Today 8/7/2011 |
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"De Telegraff, Dutch National Newspaper, covers 3,100 Mile Race”
De Telegraff 8/6/2011 |
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“ RTL Nieuws does a story on Pradeep: 5000 kilometer rondjes rennen”A popular Netherlands news program with a viewership of over 4 million features Pradeep in New York... (Please note: the video clip is in dutch language. Also, due to bufffering issues, it may take up to several minutes for the video clip to play.) RTL Nieuws 8/6/2011 |
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“ Runners Continue 52-Day Marathon Around Half-Mile Block ”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... NY1 News: 7/8/2011 |
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“ People in Queens Are Running Around a Single Block for 3,100 Miles ”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 ... Emily Witt, The New York Observer: 7/6/2011 |
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In The Media - 2010 |
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“ One Block - 5,649 Laps”Eleven Runners Compete in a 3,100-Mile Race on a Sidewalk Course in Queens. Scott Cacciola, The Wall Street Journal: 6/22/2010 |
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“ 3100 Mile Race, 52 Days, One City Block ”The 3,100 mile Self-Transcendence race is under way in Queens. The race, which runs from June to August, is an exercise in pushing the physical and mental limits of the human body. Scott Cacciola, The Wall Street Journal: 6/21/2010 |
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In The Media - 2008 |
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“ Really Going The Distance ”When people in New York circle the block, over and over again, they're usually looking for a parking spot. But what if they're circling without a car? Steve Hartman meets a few runners who are doing just that in this week's Assignment America. Steve Hartman, CBS Evening News: 8/1/2008 |
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In The Media - 2007 |
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“ Run like fire once more ”
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In The Media - 2006 |
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“ The World's Longest Foot Race ”
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In The Media - 1998
"NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: JAMAICA; Running on Inner Strength"
By RICHARD WEIR, published: July 12, 1998,
Suprabha Beckjord looks like any other weary runner pounding the concrete sidewalk around Thomas A. Edison Vocational High School. But she's not just taking an evening jog. She's running the longest race in the world.
Ms. Beckjord, who owns a gift shop in Washington, is participating in the Mount Everest of ultramarathons: a 3,100-mile competition that lasts 51 straight days and exposes the few who attempt it to numbing monotony as well as crippling shinsplints.
In its second year, this grueling contest runs laps around an older one, the 1,000-mile annual race that Sri Chinmoy, the spiritual guru, first staged in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in 1985.
Ms. Beckjord and four other runners -- a sixth, a German electrical engineer, got painful blisters and dropped out June 27 -- begin at 6 A.M. every day, as they have since the race started on June 13. They must run a minimum of 50 miles daily. But to finish by Aug. 3, they must average 60.7 miles a day, forcing them to log more than 70 miles on days they feel strong. The daily competition stops at midnight.
