{"id":2264,"date":"2013-10-01T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:12:41","slug":"new-world-records-at-sri-chinmoy-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"New world records at Sri Chinmoy Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New world records were set at recent 24 hour races\u00c2\u00a0 organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in both London and Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>At the London self-transcendence 24 hour race, veteran Geoff Oliver set new no fewer than 7 world records for the 80+ category. These records included 50 miles in 10:20:31 and distance marks at 12 hours of 89.732 kms and 24 hours of 152.295 kms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2265\" alt=\"Geoff-Oliver-1024x682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Geoff-Oliver-1024x682-500x333.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Geoff-Oliver-1024x682-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Geoff-Oliver-1024x682-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Geoff-Oliver-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Geoff has been a regular participant at the London Sri Chinmoy A.C. races in the past 20 years, and after the event thanked the organisers for the great organisation and atmosphere of the race. (<a href=\"http:\/\/run.runandbecome.com\/london-running-news\/geoff-oliver-rewrites-80-ultra-record-books\/\">Geoff rewrites Ultra records<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In the Ottawa 24 hour self-transcendence race in Canada, Jon Olsen set a new American 100-mile track record of 11:59:28! The overall winner of the Ottawa 24 hour race was Marylou Corino with 197.0 km. (<a href=\"http:\/\/ca.srichinmoyraces.org\/events\/6-12-24hr\">Ottawa 24 hour<\/a> at Sri Chinmoy Races)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sri Chinmoy was a keen proponent of ultra distance races because it offers people the opportunity to transcend their previous achievements. Sri Chinmoy also sought to exemplify a philosophy that age is only in the mind; he regularly encouraged old people never to give up but keep trying to transcend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He is happy<br \/>\nBecause every day he tries<br \/>\nAnd actually does<br \/>\nA little more than he thinks he can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy [1]<\/p>\n<p>[1] Sri Chinmoy,\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/twenty-seven-thousand-aspiration-plants-092\">Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 92<\/a>, Agni Press (1984)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New world records were set at recent 24 hour races\u00c2\u00a0 organised by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in both London and Ottawa. At the London self-transcendence 24 hour race, veteran Geoff Oliver set new no fewer than 7 world records for the 80+ category. These records included 50 miles in 10:20:31 and distance marks at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New world records at Sri Chinmoy Races&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sri-chinmoy-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}