361: The 3100 Mile Foot Race with Sanjay Rawal

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When you think of a spiritual seeker, you probably conjure up images of shaved heads, orange robes, dark meditation halls, and gongs. But sitting in silence is not the only way to mediate. You can also run around in circles 12-14 hours a day, pushing your body and mental resolve to their limit. Every year, a dozen or so seekers show up in Queens, New York, to run around an unremarkable city block until they hit 59 miles. They do this for 52 days straight, 3100 miles total. This extreme race has been happening since 1997, and many runners are repeat participants. Our guest on this week’s show directed a film profiling this race and the global phenomenon of running as a spiritual practice.

Listen & Learn:

How average people, older people, and non-athletes are completing this race
How ultra-running can be mostly a mental challenge
How transcendence is the goal and a necessity for this type of race
How humans are truly born to run
Why a spiritual guru founded this race

Links & Resources:

3100: Run & Become Race

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Sanjay is a runner and documentary filmmaker whose films include Ocean Monk, Challenging Impossibility and Food Chains. His most recent film, 3100: Run and Become, details the world’s most elusive and elite multi-day foot race around one utterly unremarkable half-mile urban sidewalk block in Queens, New York. The race demands competitors to complete at least 59 miles a day for 52 straight days.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood Show. I am a yoga teacher, a trainer, an
0:07.0	entrepreneur. I'm a nutritional coach. I'm a father, but first and foremost I'm
0:10.8	really a student. I love learning and this show is all about scratching
0:14.2	my own itch to learn.
0:16.0	And I do my best to find smart people, authors, experts, medical doctors, researchers,
0:21.4	human performance researchers, and bring them on the show to hopefully
0:24.5	share with you some of their best information so that you can live hopefully a better,
0:29.2	more inspired life. On this week's show we'll be talking about just kind of an absurd race, a 3,100 mile race around one block in Queens, in New York City.
0:40.0	Literally, people just running around the block for 52 days
0:43.2	59 miles a day more or less depending on if you're fast or slow for 52 days. It's very
0:49.0	difficult to even believe this is possible but it's been going on every year since 1997 and every
0:55.4	year people complete this and this concept of you know what nobody's really
1:00.4	watching there's not a lot of fanfare around this race. There's not a lot of sponsors.
1:03.8	There's not, it's more of a mental elite performance than it is a physical performance.
1:10.0	But of course the physical performance is undeniable.
1:12.6	It's so difficult to go this far.
1:14.9	But the mental fortitude probably outpaces the physical fortitude
1:18.6	necessary to make this happen.
1:20.7	This concept of what you do when nobody's looking is something that I really think about a lot.
1:25.0	What do you do when you have an afternoon free with no responsibilities or no obligations?
1:31.0	How do you spend your time? What do you think about or listen or physically
1:34.8	do? Who do you call? Who do you contact? What do you read? What do you do with your time? And this
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