3100 Miles: The Longest Race On Earth - Sanjay Rawal - #116

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Sanjay Rawal is an award-winning filmmaker. Today we learn about the longest race on earth which takes place in the middle of New York around a square block in the city - 3100 miles over 52 days. Extra Stuff: 3100: Run & Become Trailer - https://youtu.be/t1e399N_wB0 Follow Sanjay on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MrSanjayR Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom.
0:03.5	My guest today is Sanjay Raoal.
0:06.3	He is the filmmaker behind 3,100 Run and Become.
0:11.3	This is documentary about the longest race on earth.
0:14.7	You might think it was across the United States or on the plains of Africa perhaps.
0:20.7	But no, this is a square block in the middle of New York City in the middle of summer.
0:28.0	52 days, 31 hundred miles.
0:33.0	3,100.
0:34.0	That would take you literally across coast coast of the United States.
0:37.7	And it's just the modest experience I've ever heard.
0:41.8	Sanjay talks us through the history of distance running,
0:45.7	why we are built to run anthropologically, biomechanically.
0:49.8	Recently we had Elliot Kipchogh's sub-to-our marathon performance.
0:54.1	But in comparison with the 3,100 race,
0:57.5	that marathon seems quite a lot like a sprint.
1:00.2	So yeah, get ready for this one.
1:02.8	Please welcome Sanjay Raoal.
1:05.2	Oh yeah, PS.
1:07.0	Upcoming guests include Professor Paul Bloom from the University of Yale,
1:10.6	Aubrey Marcus and Brian Callan.
1:14.0	The next few months are going to be awesome.
1:27.5	I'm joined by Sanjay Raoal.
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