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A day and night running round a track
In a quiet corner of London a small group of extraordinary runners complete laps of an athletics track for a day and a night. Why do they do it? And how far do they go?
Most of the city is asleep, but on an athletics track just south of the River Thames one man - shivering and soaked to the bone in shorts, T-shirt and makeshift gilet fashioned from a black bin bag - is running laps. One of only three 24hr track events each year in the UK - along with Crawley, organised by Storey, and Gloucester - the race was founded in 1989 by the late spiritual guri Sri Chinmoy, who promoted meditation and physical activity. Although electronic chip timers record runners' completed laps, the unfinished final loop is measured - to three decimal places - by a race adjudicator with a wheel straight from a 1990s PE lesson.
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