There’s a lot that’s incredible about Davies’ latest achievement. But “mostly just walking”.Ĭhristchurch-born Harita Davies waves the flags of NZ and the US as she finishes her third Sri Chinmoy 3100 mile race. So Davies has forced herself back into her running shoes and out of her house in Jamaica, Queens, each day. “Because all of your organs and your whole system is so geared to be working at such a hard pace that if you just stop and sleep, then you can actually even do damage to your kidney and liver.” “One of the things that almost seems contrary to what people think is that, especially for the first week after the race, you actually need to keep moving,” she tells the Dirt Church Radio podcast. The 45-year-old knows from experience – she’s completed this race twice before – that it’s not healthy to suddenly stop after covering such a gargantuan distance. It’s just over a week since Davies finished the world’s longest foot race – the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race – and she’s still on the move. And all of it around an 800m block in the New York borough of Queens. That first step would be one of many thousands Davies would take on each of those 51 days, running 18 hours a day, until she’d covered almost 5000km. “I was just like, ‘All right, I know this is outrageous, but we’re going to do this… we’re going to just take the first step,” the New York-based Kiwi runner says. To wake up and say: “Oh my god, here I go again.” Laughter was one of her tools she used to cope, she says. And for once, ultra runner Harita Davies used being a female to her advantage.įor 51 mornings in a row, Harita Davies would wake up to her 5.15am alarm, try to steal another five minutes of snoozing, and then laugh at herself.
The Kiwi girl who dragged herself out of bed to play waterpolo just broke a record running 5000km around a New York block. LockerRoom How Harita Davies used her cycle to run 50 days straight
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