The route crossed the wide uninhabited plains of Western Australia before passing through the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. Vilas from Bristol, England started in Perth on 17 March and finished in Sydney nearly four weeks later. Like this, eventually we covered 7 miles and for periods I was jogging fairly comfortably, albeit slowly.
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- But today was about swimming, and soon we arrived in Dover and met a very joyful Angikar, clearly ready for his journey across to France.
- As the day gets brighter some runners, who have left the track for wee breaks start reappearing.
- She does not look down at his body in mournful resign; but rather glances straight ahead in powerful address, so as to pulse life back into his body through her strength.
- He also relied heavily on the experience of athletes like Eoin Keith and endurance record holding cyclist Paul O’Donoghue to help with diet plan and just as importantly, the mental preparation.
- However, after completing both races my body was depleted and was horrendously stiff.
Three weeks later he attempted his first Channel swim, and achieved an incredible twelve hours in his first experience of swimming in open water, before his inexperience and relative lack of training led to an end of that try. Vilas Silverton of the Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team recently completed a 5,474km cycle ride across Australia – as part of the Indian Pacific Wheel Race. Ushika had such belief that he would complete the distance that problems were just temporary setbacks and not insurmountable obstacles. After a few miles in this sorry state I bumped into my friend Karteek (an experienced multi-day runner and English Channel swimmer) who was also running the race. Many people were passing me – even some old, non-runners. I almost forgot to mention the real miracle of the day; although just about every part of my body screamed with pain at some point, my old hip injury remained completely silent.
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The medical crew too, all too aware of what Geoff has been trying to achieve are monitoring from a distance, but seemed happy he is in good hands. We will still put the time forward for ratification, as we believe it is the first time an 80 year old has run 100 miles in a continuous effort. At the 24hour hooter everyone stops and drops the little marker they have been carrying the last few minutes so the final part lap can be recorded.
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However, after completing both races my body was depleted and was horrendously stiff. An experienced multi-day and 3100-mile runner, Ushika, invited me to join him on a 7-mile run. My main obstacle to finishing the race was not my physical suffering or even the energy crash. It was this difference that meant that he would finish the race while I would give up.
Instead of being one of the faster runners on the course I was now one of the slowest. I was laughing because the idea of running 47 miles when I was already struggling in the first few miles felt crazy. The idea kept gnawing away at me until I felt that I should, in Sri Chinmoy’s words, “dare to try” – for the experience if nothing else! However, I met a few other people who also wanted to run this race and somehow I got caught up in the inspiration. After running a marathon in one of my best times, I was talking to an ultra-running friend.
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I made my way to Weston College where other runners congregated to change. When I was young I was highly competitive, and then I made the decision that I was to be one of those runners that ran just to keep fit, to supplement by footballing ambitions. The shots above show the run through the streets and some of the faster runners as well as the race start.
- At the 24hour hooter everyone stops and drops the little marker they have been carrying the last few minutes so the final part lap can be recorded.
- It took me about 20mins each hour to update the score board so that the runners could see how far they had gone.
- There are drink stations at each mile where you are guaranteed a roar of encouragement and once a lap you get to see Sri Chinmoy’s huge smile, I was quite certain that this alone was enough to get me round the next lap.
- All we could see was their small green lights, until, suddenly the lights rose about six feet off the water.
- Despite the huge number of runners, the 4 waved starts and wide course meant that it mostly didn’t feel too congested, apart from at a couple of narrower bottlenecks which even then weren’t too bad.
- Well not completely, but he certainly helped.
If nothing else, none of our customers need ever feel intimidated by our shop as they know they can all complete a marathon quicker than at least one of the staff! After the first lap my body settled into the running and before I knew it, I was at the 8 mile mark, from then on it was all self transcendence as I was going further than I had run in nearly 4 years. Unfortunatley I couldn’t hear it as I was at the back of 750 runners but I felt his peaceful, meditative presence and as I crossed the start line, I saw his light flooded smile. When I was finally feeling myself again, I went out one morning full of enthusiasm, over did it and promptly got the first serious running injury of my life!
For those unfamiliar with a 24hour race, Sankra Casino the idea is to cover a fixed loop that has been accurately measured, in this case a 400 metre track, and see how many laps you can complete in the 24 hours. He duly broke, or set, completely new marks for all the recognized ultra distances from 30 miles up to 24 hours, with the exception of 100 miles, which he fell some 5 miles short of. But, after an eventful few weeks, Vilas was able to complete the full distance finishing in Sydney. I’ll admit that miles 15 to 20 were tough, but once I knew I only had two laps to go it was all joy.