Multiday and Ultrarunning News

Thursday September 7, 2006 9:10
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Thursday September 7, 2006 0:19
Multidays is moving host and should be back to normal within 48 hours.

Sunday September 3, 2006 13:15
The Marathon of Britain, a 175 mile race spread over 6 days, kicked off yesterday with Dan Afshar winning Stage One and Heidi Wilson, first lady, in third place overall. Follow the daily news on the Marathon of Britain LiveViewer

Also starting yesterday was the GORE-TEX™ Transalpine-Run 2006. A 150 mile/230 km run with 46,000 feet of ascent over 8 days. The race starts in Oberstdorf (GER) and finishes on the 9th of September in Latsch (I) pasiing through 4 alpine countries. 117 2-person teams are on the start list. An English version is available at Transalpine-Run 2006

Coming up in just over a week is the great Deutschlandlauf, DL2006. A list of runners is up on the site.

Saturday September 2, 2006 18:11
The 5th Transe Gaule race is over and we await the daily update for confirmation of the finishing places.

Also Sharon Gayter begins her JOGLE (Lands End to John O' Groats in the UK) attempt in 6 hours or so. We wish her the best.

Thursday August 31, 2006 21:15
Paula Duncan has reached her journeys goal - a 1200 km solo hike along the The Great Divide Trail to Kakwa Lake Trailhead on Aug 28! Paula kindly sent this picture. Checkout Paula Duncan's Journey notes and enter into Paula's world.

In the Transe Gaule, legendary US runner, 68 year old Texan Don Winkley, was named "L'homme du jour" yesterday. Don is currently in 10th place and having his best performance so farand has run in every edition of the race since its inception. Checkout the news on Yanoo.net

Sunday August 20, 2006 16:42
News of a new TransEurope Footrace which will take place in 2009. Slightly shorter in length, Ingo Schultz is planning another epic experience. Visit TransEurope-FootRace

Transe Gaule daily updates are available at Yanoo.net

Tuesday August 15, 2006 23:27 The Swiss Jura Marathon, a 350 km, 6 day stage race, run from Geneva to Basle, took place between July 9th and July 15th and was won by Thomas Miksch in a total of 31:18:02 hours. The ladies division was won by Carmen Hildebrand in 39:38:11 hours. The race had 61 finishers. The results are available at Swissjuramarathon.com

Monday August 14, 2006 22:17
More Journey Runner updates.
Richard Bottram is running a marathon distance everyday for a year to raise money for cancer reasearch. Marathon365

Paula Duncan is solo-hiking 1200km of the Great Divide Trail and is due in Jasper at this time according to Paula's website

Sunday August 13, 2006 18:45
Martin Fryer took first place in the Goldcoast 48 with 351.716 km (218.546 miles) and Deborah de Williams was first lady with 181.915 km (113.036 miles).
In the 24 hour race David Waugh took first place with 214 km (133 miles) and the ladies event was won by Tina Fiegel with105.470 km (65.53 miles)

Goldcoast 48/24/12/6 hour results posted on Goldcoast100.com

Sunday August 13, 2006 14:22

Journey Runner News

Also on the road at this time is Serge Girard crossing Eurasia and according to his logbook was in Joetsu, Japan on Saturday. Checkout his site, again an English version has beenkindly provided, at Sergegirard.com

Rosie Swale-Pope's amazing adventure continues. Rosie is in the Yukon at the moment and there's a bunch of recent photos on the site which have given me and I'm sure many more people, glimpses of a world remote, desolate and barely touched by human habitation. Rosie is connecting hearts all over the world. Rosie around the world

John Wallace is tracking US Crossers on his site and lists 169 people who have made the journey. For complete up to date news on Crossers visit Seejohnrun.com

Tony Mangan also sent word of The World Walker, Mark Cundy, who has spent a lot of time walking around the world. Read more at Worldwalker.co.uk

Friday August 11, 2006 12:59

Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk wins the10th Self-Transcendence 3100 in New York in 41 days+08:16:29. Asprihanal Aalto takes second place and third place went to last years winner, Srdjan Stojanovich in 44 days+13:32:04. Suprabha Beckjord finished for the 10th time maintaining an amazing record.

Next race is the Transe Gaule, 1166K through France beginning on August 17th and has 38 runners taking part. Part of the site has kindly been reproduced for the benefit of English speakers.Yanoo.net

Friday July 28, 2006 0:40
After 2 weeks of problems things are getting back to normal, however the 3100 blog will continue on MultidayRunning.com. Some links and pages dont work at the moment. These will be taken care of after the 3100 mile race has finished.

Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk has set a new record for the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race by finishing in the phenomenal time of 41 days+08:16:29 and taking off 29 hours, seven minutes, and 34 seconds of his previous record. Asprihanal Aalto finished second and Srdjan Stojanovich, last years winner clinched third place in 44 days+13:32:04

Checkout the newly updated SriChinmoyRaces site

Monday July 10, 2006 5:53
Not much news at the moment. Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk is trying to break his old record for the 3100 mile race. Asprihanal Aalto is a 100 miles or so behind.

Friday June 23, 2006 23:54
Daily results for the 3100 mile race
Race Journal will be updated daily
Race photos are also added on a regular basis though not easy to find.

Saturday June 10, 2006 7:07
Tomorrow the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race starts in Queens, New York, daily updates will be posted on the site and on my personal blog and also the Arizona 6 Day race in Douglas, AZ begins.

Friday June 9, 2006 23:03
More information on the Indian 10/6/3 day race in Mysore which starts on 22 Sep 06

Thursday June 1, 2006 11:09

The new pages at the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race are going up.

April 27th
Self-Transcendence 6 & 10 Day

May 12-14
Surgeres

May 15th

IsarRun 2006

June 11
Self-Transcendence 3100