Robin Finn gives her thoughts on the 1991 Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio: 700/1,000/1,300 Mile Races in the New York Times
"Just like her fellow ultra-marathoners, Sandy Barwick, a New Zealand housewife whose one peculiar avocation has turned her into a world- record holder, is living out of a tent in the midst of a multinational nomad camp along the boat basin at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
It is a place where almost everyone moves at a limp, where the tent that contains the MASH unit administers continual treatment to runners suffering ailments ranging from simple blisters to the dementia that comes from running the same one-mile circle, like a gerbil on an exercise wheel, over and over again for two weeks with only a few hours of sleep each day."
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Photo: Race Founder Sri Chinmoy greets the runners at the start of the 1,300 Mile Race