About the author:
Nirbhasa is from Ireland. He is an enthusiastic multi-day runner, having completed four times the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race - the longest race in the world.
On Monday 26 October, Samunnati Nataliya Lehonkova won the Dublin Marathon in blustery conditions in a time of 2:31 - a personal best. Over 15,000 runners turned out for this year's event, including 4,800 runners from abroad.
Samunnati is the fastest female marathon runner of Sri Chinmoy's students around the wold. Over the past few years she has won a string of European marathons including Belfast, Edinburgh and Toulouse. She has also frequently participated in the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run - the world's largest peace torch relay - and has toured Australia and Europe with the international team. After her victory in Dublin, she said in a post race interview "I didn't think about it; I just tried to run faster. I just tried to do my best."
