{"id":1015,"date":"2011-03-05T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2011-03-05T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:54:57","slug":"sri-chinmoys-marathon-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s Marathon Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Chinmoy felt running made an excellent complement to a spiritual life of prayer and meditation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1016\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ckg_run_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1016\" title=\"ckg_run_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ckg_run_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ckg_run_2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ckg_run_2-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sri Chinmoy running<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the 1970s and 1980s, Sri Chinmoy ran 22 marathons. His first marathon was on 3 March 1979 in a time of 4:31:34. His fastest marathon time was 3.55.07 in the Toledo marathon <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1015-1' id='fnref-1015-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1015)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the spiritual significance of marathons, Sri Chinmoy writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ma<em>rathon is a long journey. Of course, there is also the  ultramarathon, but the marathon is unique and it will always remain  unparalleled among long-distance runs. Just as the marathon is a long  journey on the outer plane, so is spirituality a long, longer, longest  journey on the inner plane. Your own spiritual run is birthless and  deathless; it is endless.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1015-2' id='fnref-1015-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1015)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>A prolonged knee injury later forced Sri Chinmoy to give up running; instead he took up weightlifting.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team continue to promote marathons and other running races world-wide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.tv\/tv\/315\">Love of Running<\/a> &#8211; video by Utpal Marshall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoyraces.org\/\">Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-1015'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-1015-1'> Sri Chinmoy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0464\/8\/5\">Run and Become part 7<\/a> <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1015-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-1015-2'> Sri Chinmoy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0645\/2\/47\"><em>The Outer Running And The Inner Running,<\/em><\/a> Agni Press,     1974. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1015-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Chinmoy felt running made an excellent complement to a spiritual life of prayer and meditation. During the 1970s and 1980s, Sri Chinmoy ran 22 marathons. His first marathon was on 3 March 1979 in a time of 4:31:34. His fastest marathon time was 3.55.07 in the Toledo marathon 1 Speaking on the spiritual significance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s Marathon Running&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-chinmoy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}