{"id":1731,"date":"2012-08-01T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:55:51","slug":"grahak-wins-3100-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"Grahak Wins 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grahak Cunningham of Perth, Australia, finished first in the 2012 edition of the 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race. Despite four heat waves and other difficulties, Grahak ran the fourth fastest performance in the sixteen year history of the race today, covering the 3100 mile distance in 43 days,10 hours, 36 minutes and 39 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1732\" title=\"grahak-finish-line\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-finish-line-500x321.jpg\" alt=\"Grahak finish\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-finish-line-500x321.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-finish-line-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-finish-line.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">photo: Utpal<\/p>\n<p>For the 3100 mile race, Grahak averaged 71.363 miles \/114.848 kilometers per day. He becomes the third man in history to average over 70 miles for the duration of the race. The 35 year old has run the race four times now, with each one faster than his previous effort.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1734\" title=\"grahak-2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-2000-451x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-2000-451x500.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-2000-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grahak-2000.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 85vw, 451px\" \/><br \/>\nGrahak at 2000 miles<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1733\" title=\"Grahak-finish-2007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grahak-finish-2007-500x338.jpg\" alt=\"grahak\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grahak-finish-2007-500x338.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grahak-finish-2007-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grahak-finish-2007.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">photo Jowan<\/p>\n<p>Grahak with Sri Chinmoy, the founder of the race, in the 2007 edition.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"440\" height=\"685\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoyraces.org\/player\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;bandwidth=31316&amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.srichinmoyraces.org%2Fplayer%2Flist%2F3100home.rss&amp;playlist=bottom&amp;plugins=viral-2d\" \/><embed width=\"440\" height=\"685\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoyraces.org\/player\/player.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"&amp;bandwidth=31316&amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.srichinmoyraces.org%2Fplayer%2Flist%2F3100home.rss&amp;playlist=bottom&amp;plugins=viral-2d\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grahakcunningham.com\/\">Grahak&#8217;s blog<\/a> &#8211; an insight into the pain and experiences of the race<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectionjourney.org\/2012\/07\/31\/july-30-all-have-the-same-goal\/\">Blog post <\/a>at Perfection Journey.org<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/3100.srichinmoyraces.org\/3100-results-2012\">3100 Mile Race results<\/a> at Sri Chinmoy Races<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grahak Cunningham of Perth, Australia, finished first in the 2012 edition of the 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race. Despite four heat waves and other difficulties, Grahak ran the fourth fastest performance in the sixteen year history of the race today, covering the 3100 mile distance in 43 days,10 hours, 36 minutes and 39 seconds. photo: Utpal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grahak Wins 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"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=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}