Self-Transcendence 6 and 10 Day Races: Runners List
List of Runners as of April 13, 2015. Maximum number of participants is 84. Subject to pre-race-day cancellation runners on the waiting list will be notified of their acceptance in their requested event. ...
Running in a Tropical Paradise: Bali
While visiting Bali this winter, members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team held various athletic events including 100 meter, 1-mile and 2-mile races. While those of us in New York suffered through a particularly cold, snowy and icy winter, the members...
Runners Around the World Celebrate Chico Marathon Anniversary
The 36th Anniversary of Sri Chinmoy's first marathon run was celebrated worldwide by various chapters of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. Sri Chinmoy ran 22 official marathons. His first marathon was run on March 2, 1979 at the Bidwell Classic Marathon,...
'The Book of Extremes' highlights the 3,100 Mile Race
The Book of Extremes (Das Buch der Extreme, available at Amazon - German only), highlights the longest certified road race in the world, the Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race, held annually in Queens, New York. ...
1.3 million miles run in our New York multi day races so far!
The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team has been sponsoring multi-day races for a long time (and not just in New York). Sahishnu, one of our long standing New York based race directors, had time to calculate the total number of miles run by all the runners (1...
Self-Transcendence Thanksgiving 5Km Race: Final Results
Boy was it a cold Saturday! How cold? It was so cold that our computers froze and our cronomix malfunctioned, one of our vans would not start and one of the stop watches stopped watching! And the fingers of those poor souls that did the day of race...
Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden Celebration
The 6th Annual Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden Celebration included a celebrity walk, a 2-mile race, and a special ceremony at the Al Oerter Center. Over 100 hundred runners from over 25 different countries participated in the 2-mile race. The celebrity walk...
'Challenging Impossibility' available for in-flight viewing on United Airlines
Challenging Impossiblity is a 2011 documentary film by Sanjay Rawal, which chronicles the weightlifting odyssey of the spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, who in 1984 at the age of 54 took up weightlifting, performing many feats of strength over a 22...
Self-Transcendence 7 Hour Solo and Relay Races - race report
And here are the results: ...
Self-Transcendence Marathon 2014 Results
Over 300 runners turned up at 7am on a glorious August Monday morning in Rockland Lake State Park. Up and coming marathoner Samalya Schaefer from Berlin came home in a time of 2:49 for the men, and Agnikana Senkyrova notched up yet another win on the...
3100 Mile Race featured in Sports Illustrated 60th Anniversary edition
The 60th Anniversary Issue of Sports Illustrated highlights Sarvagata Ukraniskyi's victory in the longest certified foot race in the world, the Self-Transcendence 3,100-Mile Race. ...
Around the block in 52 days
Article from Dagens Næringsliv (Norway largest daily business newspaper), published on 9th August, 2014. The following is a translated excerpt (thanks to Premananda for the English translation): ...
A run in the park - article about William Sichel's 3100 Mile Race
Ian Corliss interviews William Sichel from Orkney, Scotland, who in 2014 became the oldest person at 60 to successfully complete the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the world's longest certified foot race. ...
3100 Mile Race 2014: CBS This Morning, NY Times and more...
Inside the world's longest race: CBS This Morning ...
Karteek Clark swims English Channel for the eleventh time, July 2014
July 30, 2014 - Karteek Clarke, member of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon and Swimming Team swam the slowest and toughest of his 11 Channel crossings on 30 July (19 hours and 1 minute). He is indeed a champion of champions. Looking at the map of his...
'Chicken Run' - a fun illustration of how far the 3100 Mile runners have come!
It's hard to grasp the magnitude of 3100 Mile race. Fortunately, the town of Chicken, Alaska (population 17) happens to lie exactly 3100 miles away from the finish line in Queens NY. So if the race were to start in Chicken and finish in New York, how...