Part I — Remarks on ultramarathon running

• 1.
• Remarks before the first 700 — 1,000 — 1,300-mile race
• Remarks before the first 7-day race
• 2.
• Remarks after the 1991 700 — 1,000 — 1,300-mile race
• Remarks after the first 3,100-mile race
• Remarks after the 200-mile race
• Remarks to Yiannis Kouros upon his breaking the world record for 24 hours

Part III — Talks on running

• The outer running and the inner running
• A great champion
• Who is the winner?

Part IV — The body and the soul

• 1.
• O my body
• What is the purpose of the physical body?
• 2.
• "The purpose of my life"
• 3.
• "When we live in the soul"
• 4.
• "The soul lives in constant joy"
• 5.
• "The necessities of the body"
• 6.
• "By ignoring the body"
• 7.
• "When we have dynamic energy"
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Part V — Competition, training and self-transcendence

• 1.
• Question: Why do you encourage your students to participate in and to organise endurance events or long-distance races?
• Question: What is the spiritual purpose of competitive sports?
• 2.
• Question: What should an athlete do, from the spiritual point of view, to increase his performance?
• Question: How can I go faster? I find it so uninspiring to run slowly.
• 3.
• Question: How can we sustain enthusiasm and freshness in our training and keep it from becoming tedious and boring?
• 4.
• Question: How can I remain cheerful about my running on days when I cannot run my fastest?
• Question: Why do we get injuries for no apparent reason?
• Question: How can we spiritually heal injuries?
• Question: How can we use meditation to get rid of pain?
• Question: Do pain and suffering aid our spiritual life by purifying it?
• Question: What is the source of suffering?
• Question: How do you run through inner pain?
• Question: Should we run even when we are extremely tired?
• "No, never!"
• Question: How do you keep your enthusiasm when you start to get tired and exhausted during running?
• Question: How can I maintain my aspiration throughout a particular race?
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• 6.
• Question: What do you think is the best attitude for a seeker-athlete during training and during competition, and how should these two attitudes work together?
• Question: How much does the idea of failure hold back one's progress in training or competition?
• Question: What is a winning attitude?
• 7.
• Question: During training an athlete sacrifices a great deal of time, and yet on the race day he may not do well. What attitude should he have at that time?
• 8.
• Question: How can an athlete establish peace inside himself to give him strength?
• 9.
• Question: Does inner running help our outer running?
• Question: What is the difference between aspiration and ambition?
• Question: How does your philosophy of self-transcendence apply in an international competition where world records are often being contested?
• Question: Is there a limit to any record?
• 10.
• Question: You have drawn three million birds; one of your students has just run a thousand miles. This is genuinely inspiring, but it is also quite extreme. Could you explain why you go to such extremes?
• Question: Yes, this makes very good sense. It's about spirituality and limitlessness. It's a definition. By breaking the barriers down and considering three million birds as something possible to draw, one is asserting spiritual reality. Is that correct?
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Part VI — Excerpts from conversations with Sudhahota Carl Lewis

• Sudhahota Carl Lewis: How should I pray when I am preparing for competition, during the practice time and also right before a race?
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Part VII — Notes

• Photos in first edition
• Editor's preface to the first edition
• A brief history of the Sri Chinmoy ultramarathons
• About Sri Chinmoy