Luis Rios is a legendary marathon runner and a longtime friend of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, having participated in our races for decades. This great story, titled "After a Jog 35 Years Ago, He’s Still Running in Circles" written by Jesse Newman appeared in the New York Times appeared August 9 , 2012
"At 11 a.m. on Sunday two things will happen: in London, around 100 of the world’s fastest men will launch themselves onto the 26.2-mile Olympic marathon course, dashing from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London in front of hundreds of thousands of excited spectators.
"Meanwhile, as the sun rises over Brooklyn, a lone man named Luis Rios will be traipsing unnoticed along the not-quite-three-and-a-half-mile loop in Prospect Park..." Complete article on Luis Rios »