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'I saw all the little details changing... even sometimes per lap'

49 days, 2 hours, 57 minutes and 3 seconds. That’s how long it took Christopher Pushkar Müllauer to become the first Swiss athlete to run the Self-Transcendence race–-all 4988 kilometers of it. (That works out to about 100 kilometers a day.) It’s the longest certified race in the world, launched in 1997 by fitness guru and philosopher Sri Chinmoy, comprised of running 5,649 times around a block of 883 meters in New York City’s Queens borough. The winner, Finland’s Aalto Asprihanal, took just 43 days, 16 hours and 28 minutes. WRS’s Carla Drysdale asked the 37-year-old Zurich man how he feels now:

Christopher Pushkar Müllauer of Zürich became the first Swiss to finish New York’s 3,100-mile Self-Transcendence race—the longest certified race in the world, equivalent to 118 marathons in under 50 days. (KEYSTONE / Sri Chinmoy Marathon / Yowan Gauthier)

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