Reach your limit, 超越自我

触摸极限，超越自我。

看人家文章说跑步要想进步一定在最后要冲一下，要跑到有吐的感觉，然后就进步了。话说今天早上我就突然想起了这句话，然后我就在最后冲了，没想到的是我发现自己不但可以跑的很快，很快还不会吐，立马觉得自己潜力大大的大大的有，所以，冲马？可以的？是时候啦？哈哈。

既然动了跑马的心，我就来看看这个吧。注意到这个其实有好多年了，今天老板不在，事情弄得差不多了，我就来研究一下这个对我来说一直有点神秘的组织和活动吧。

 

Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 6- & 10-day Race

维基百科上找来的资讯。

The Self-Transcendence 6- & 10-day Race are two concurrent multiday running events, held in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, a large public park in the borough of Queens in New York City. The course is one mile (1.6  km) long. They are held annually in April and organized by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team.

History and records

The Team held a 1000-mile race in the spring of 1985, and later in the year held the first Sri Chinmoy Five Day Race at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, which lasted for three consecutive years and led to the Seven-Day Race, the forerunner of today's Ten Day event. The first Five-Day Race featured 15 competitors, as did the first Seven-Day Race. By 1995 the longer event grew to 34 starters.

In the inaugural Seven-Day Race in 1988, Marty Sprengelmeyer of Davenport, Iowa narrowly beat women's winner Suprabha Beckjord of Washington, DC, 527 miles to 521 miles.

In 1990 ultramarathoner Al Howie set a new record of 530 miles. The following year Charlie Eidel of Gardiner, NY ran 550 miles for a new course record, while Suprabha Beckjord ran 523 to claim the women's record again. Suprabha won the ladies' Seven Day five times. In 1994 Antana Locs of Canada won the Seven-Day overall with 518 miles. Georgs Jermolajevs from Latvia won the Seven-Day Race in 1995, in record-setting fashion, running 578 miles, while England's Pippa Davis won the women's title as she ran 525 miles. In the 1996 inaugural Ten Day Race, Georgs Jermolajevs again fashioned a victory with 725 miles, closely followed by Dipali Cunningham of Australia, who garnered 723 miles for the ladies. In a smaller field in 1997 veteran Donald Winkley of Corpus Christi, Texas prevailed with 530 miles.

1998 the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team added the 6-day race to their calendar in this year Dipali Cunningham breaking Sandy Barwick's record with 504 miles. In 2000 Ted Corbitt at 81 set a new World age-group best (80-84) with 240 miles and in the following year, 2001 Dipali Cunningham won the 6-day overall and set a new World Record with 510 miles.

In May 2021 6-day Race was held for the first time at another venue in Bulgaria, Sofia. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.[6]

In April 2022 the 6 day race took place without the 10 Day.

再查了查Sri Chinmoy ，妈妈咪呀，这么牛的一个精神领袖，这么大的一个人物，竟然是纽约客！纽约本土的精神领袖！

然后我就在想，连续不停的跑上6 天10天的，无论是人的意志和肉体都应该会 reach 某种 limit， 人经过一个这样的过程之后，是不是会获得某种意义上的自我超越, 精神上的升华？

我想一定是这样的，不然这么多追随者，每年春天来这么6天10天没日没夜的跑，是为了什么呀？