Dignitaries including former Olympians hold the World Harmony Run torch and offer their good wishes for peace.

Sri Chinmoy Heart Garden

The Sri Chinmoy Heart-Garden was dedicated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to Sri Chinmoy, on October 11, 2006. Exactly one year later Sri Chinmoy passed away, leaving a vibrant legacy of world service and creativity in many fields.

The Heart-Garden Two-Mile Race, first held in October 2009, is an annual event organised by Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team to celebrate the legacy and vision for world peace offered by Sri Chinmoy.

Everything that is beautiful,
Inspiring and aspiring
Can easily be found
Inside our heart-garden.

Related

• Heart Garden Race at Sri Chinmoy Races
• Photos and report at World Harmony Run

Start of Ten Day Race

photo by Prabhakar. more photos at Sri Chinmoy Races

Related

• 6 and 10 Day Race at Sri Chinmoy Races. For results and latest updates.

• Utpal’s blog on the race at Perfection Journey
• Race photos by Antara Prabhat

Photo by Jowan. The sleepless action of the race.

The race was initiated by founder Sri Chinmoy, who himself ran several marathons and ultra-marathons. These ultra day races offer competitors and helpers an opportunity to transcend their own limitations – both physical, mental and spiritual.

“Self-transcendence gives us joy in boundless measure. When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves. “

Excerpt from The Vision-Sky Of California by Sri Chinmoy.

Photo by Alakananda. – Smiling through the rain and miles. The 10 day race never stops

Image by Pavol. The Race is held at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York. It is an impressive backdrop for this epic even of self-transcendence.

The scoreboard – image by Utpal

Related

• 6 Day Race Home page
• 10 Day Race Home Page
• Reports from 6 and 10 Day Race by Utpal at Perfection Journey
• Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Blog of Race

Results for Race

• Six Day Men
• Six Day Women
• Ten Day Men
• Ten Day Women

You can view some of the upcoming 2 mile races around the world at Sri Chinmoy Races

More races will be added soon.

“Try to be a runner, and try all the time to surpass and go beyond all that is bothering you and standing in your way. Be a real runner so that ignorance, limitation and imperfection will all drop far behind you in the race.”

Participants were joined by several Olympians, including track and field legend Carl Lewis, Russian runner Olesya Zykina and New York Athletic Club founder Bill Lumpp. Local Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) was also present saying of the event:

“This race and this day are yet another example of the boundless inspiration that Sri Chinmoy has always provided to those who are young at heart,”

Start of the Race

Before the Start

Sri Chinmoy Street

Photos by Jowan

Ripping Telephone Book

Milan Roskopf juggling with three chainsaws - Don't Try this at Home...

Chasing record for Skipping on Stilts

If we believe
In our own
Self-transcendence-task
Then there can be
No unreachable goal.

- Sri Chinmoy

• Quotes on Self Transcendence

• Impossibility Challenger at Sri Chinmoy Races

6 and 10 Day Race Winners

In second place was American Pam Reed, 48, who set an American record for her age groups with 490 miles- At her first attempt at a 6 day race.

Darren Worts, 38, USA won for the men with 420 miles

In the Ten Day, Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk,53,from Germany won with an amazing 777 miles. This was the 3rd longest distance in any 10 day race.

Kaneenika Janakova,38, from Slovakia won the ladies’ Ten Day event with 707 miles. A personal best and her second consecutive victory.

There was a field of 44 in the 10 Day and 36 in the Six Day.

Results at Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team

From Race Report by Sahishnu.at Marathon Team blog

Race Report at NY Times

Race reports, photos and interviews at Perfection Journey by Utpal

Photo Gallery by Jowan

6 and 10 Day Race

The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team, 6 and 10 Day Race is underway at Flushing Meadows, New York

• Daily Results for 6 and 10 Day Race
• Daily Blog by Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team
• Utpal’s Blog on the Race – photos and interviews
• It’s not over till its over Madhupran Schwek runs 136 miles on day 1
• 6 Day Race at Multidays

Photo at the start of 6 and 10 Day Race, organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team which began on April 23rd 2008.

The 6 and 10 Day race has been organised for several years by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon team. This year it is held in Flushing meadows park, near to the Tennis compound used in the US Open.

The 6 and 10 Day race is not so much a competition against others. But, offers an unique chance for self-transcendence, where runners seek to transcend their own capacities.

Video of 6 Day Race

Video by Bhuvah.

6 Ten Day Links

• Daily Results for 10 Day Race
  
• 6 and 10 Race at Sri Chinmoy Races
• Time for Plan B – The Race goes on in all conditions ‘the weather isn’t bad it’s overwhelming’ – article by Utpal
• Interview with Madhupran the current leader (after day 5 with an impressive 458 miles already). Madhupran, who once said he had retired from multiday running, explains why he was motivated to run to honor, Sri Chinmoy, the founder of the race.
• 2008 10 Day Race at Multidays

In August, 2007, AUM publications published a new book. “My Cycling Experiences”

This is a collection of anecdotes about Sri Chinmoy’s experiences of cycling.

These stories range from childhood reminiscences in Chittagong to completing the Pepsi 24 hour cycling challenge in the 1970s.

The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team entered the 24 hours cycle race around Central Park, New York from 1977 to 1979.

Sri Chinmoy’s best 24 hour distance was 230 miles in 1978. 1978 also saw Ashrita Furman, a student of Sri Chinmoy’s, complete 405 miles. This cycling race was a key event in encouraging Ashrita that he could break Guinness World Records, and he now has the distinction of holding more than anyone else on the planet.

Speaking on the significance of cycling. Sri Chinmoy wrote:

“While we are cycling, we are reminding ourselves of evolution, of how the world is evolving in cycles. When we think of our planet, we think of a wheel turning: our life also is revolving like a wheel. So cycling reminds us of the process of evolution and of how everything goes in cycles.”

My Cycling Experiences by Sri Chinmoy, AUM Publications, 2007

The Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team is currently active in the UK.

(Photo of Sri Chinmoy, Pepsi 24 hour Cycling Race, 1978.)