6-Hour Cycling in Dossenheim, Germany

In honour of the 60th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy's arrival in the West

Sri Chinmoy leads a 215-member cycling team of his students to victory in the 24-Hour Bicycle Marathon in New York on May 27, 1979. For more details about cycling marathons (1977 - 1980), click here.

6-Hour Cycling in Dossenheim (near Heidelberg), June 8, 2024

Results:

1. Hrishikesh 138 km
2. Vandaniya 115 km
3. Kallol 113 km

3. Bartika 113 km
5. Tarika 40 km
6. Tatyana 32 km
7. Mahiya 24 km
8. Didithi 16 km

Total: 591 km

Before the start.

Vandaniya in a poppy field beside the cycling track.

Kallol in front of Landenburg's water tower.

Mahiya and Tatyana, Neckar river in the background.

Organizational details

When: Saturday, June 8, 2024, 8:30 - 14:30

Where: Schwabenheimer Hof, Ortsstrasse 24, 69221 Dossenheim, Germany

Course map:

Cycle with us on an 8 km long flat asphalt course between Dossenheim and Ladenburg (10 km from Heidelberg, Germany).

Course leads you from Dossenheim along Neckar river to the city of Ladenburg. Turning point is at the Ladenburg water tower. Second half of the course goes through the fields of Dossenheim, back to the starting point.

Toilets are available at the turning point (water tower in Ladenburg).

Refreshment-station and counting-station are at the starting point in Dossenheim.

Free parking is available at the starting point (Gasthaus "Zum Anker").

In case of questions, please contact Kallol at +49 6221 360 74 13.

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Propositions:

The cycling takes place non-stop

from 18:00 on Friday, 09 August 2019
to 21:00 on Saturday, 10 August 2019

During these 27 hours (use local time in your country) you can ride bicycle wherever you want, as much as you want, individually or with friends, even on your stationary bicycle at home, if you have no time to go out. You need not ride all 27 hours, join any time and cycle as long as you feel inspired.

If you have enough cyclist-friends, you can organize relay-cycling covering all 27 hours.

Please measure (or estimate) the distance you crossed and send your full name, place where you cycled and distance you crossed to Vandaniya, Zurich per email: [email protected].

Results:

Results - 27-Hour Cycling Relay, 9/10 August 2019 (pdf) - 116 participants in 20 countries on four continents cycled together 6,118 kilometers.

Two teams were organized in Europe and each team relay-cycled all 27 hours. Cyclists accepted responsibility to cycle during one hour of the day, then cycled more outside that hour if they found it enjoyable.

Team BLUE:

Team RED:

Photo gallery:

Adriano cycled 300km in 11 hours 17 minutes (personal best) around his city Sao Jose dos Campos in Brasil.

Adriano's bicycle and watch at the end of his cycling adventure.

Sao Jose dos Campos (Brasil) as the evening-peace sets in.

Prasannateyu cycled 180 km as part of an Ironman-distance triathlon in Nagyatad, Hungary.

Prasannateyu preparing for the start of eXtremeMan, Nagyatad, Hungary.

While competing in eXtremeMan, Prasannateyu was also covering the hour 12:00-13:00 for Team RED.

Varsneya (113 km) and Deeptaksha (346 km, longest distance cycled in this year's 27-Hour Cycling), cycled around Zurich, Switzerland.

Igor cycled 244 km in Chisinau, Moldova and sent this photo of cloud-play in the sky.

Nikhad cycled in Edipsos, Greece.

Amur, Team RED, 01:00-02:00, cycled in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Stefan, Team BLUE, 12:00-13:00, Dietikon, Switzerland.

Ilvaka, Team BLUE, 06:00-07:00, Munich, Germany.

Group photo of Swiss cyclists after the end of 27-Hour event in Schlieren.

Marta, Team RED, 18:00-19:00, cycled in Gyor, Hungary.

Andrej, Nikita and Mahasatya, Team BLUE, cycling in Schlieren, Switzerland.

Shuna, Team RED, 18:00-19:00, cycled in Budapest, Hungary.

Marija cycled for Team RED (19:00-20:00) in Nis, Serbia.

Toyesa, Team RED (20:00-21:00), Zagreb, Croatia.

Nastya and Shashvatee, Team RED, 21:00-22:00, cycled in Oslo, Norway.

Biljana, Team RED, 22:00-23:00, cycled in Zrenjanin, Serbia.

Vera, Team RED, 23:00-24:00, Zrenjanin, Serbia.

Baridhi, Team BLUE, 09:00-10:00, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Hrishikesh, Team BLUE, 13:00-14:00, Sofia, Bulgaria. Hrishikesh cycled 189 km.

Parliament building in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo by Hrishikesh.

Fountain in the night, Sofia, Bulgaria, photo by Hrishikesh.

Kedar from Zurich, Switzerland cycled 165 km.

Oksana, Ratuja and Kushali cycled in Moscow, Russia.

Moscow was rainy and windy almost the whole day. Oksana and Ratuja having fun in spite of weather.

Devarupi, Team RED, 05:00-06:00, Curonian Lagoon, Lithuania. At sunrise.

Devarupi on her sunrise-ride.

Eshana, Team RED, 07:00-08:00, Geneva, Switzerland.

Eshana and Celana cyled together in the pouring rain.

Vasanti, Team BLUE, 08:00-09:00, from Heidelberg, cycled along Neckar river.

Birds on Neckar, photo by Vasanti.

Bridge over Neckar and Heidelberg Castle, photo by Vasanti.

Jovana, Team RED, 09:00-10:00, cycled outside Nis, Serbia. Met a turtle on the way.

Kallol, Team RED, 10:00-11:00, cycled in forests near Heidelberg, Germany.

Dany, Team BLUE, 11:00-12:00, Nancy, France.

Taponidhi, Team RED, 11:00-12:00, cycled in Gyor, Hungary.

Namitabha, Team RED, 13:00-14:00, made a long route from Nis to Vlasina lake (Serbia) and back. Namitabha cycled 214 km.

Aleksandra, Team RED, 15:00-16:00, cycled in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Martina, Team BLUE, 18:00-19:00, just outside Belgrade, Serbia.

Krzysztof, Team RED, 19:00-20:00, near Warsaw, Poland.

Ashcharjya, Team BLUE, 10:00-11:00, Paris, France.

Dina, Team BLUE, 05:00-06:00, Montpellier, France.

Jayasalini and Alakananda, Team RED, 20:00-21:00, Paris, France.

Keyarie, Team BLUE, 10:00-11:00, Montpellier, France.

Luisa, Team RED, 15:00-16:00, Nancy, France.

Mena, Team Blue, 07:00-08:00, cycled near Nancy, France.

Ratna, Team RED, 14:00-15:00, cycled in Paris, France.

Uchita from Novi Sad, Serbia, sent this photo from her 55 km ride.

Vandaniya, Team BLUE, 212 km total, cycled in Schlieren, Switzerland.

Last hour has started. Sunset over a sunflower field, photo by Vandaniya. See you next year ...

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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.

In 2013, after many years of trying and some very near podium misses, Tejvan Pettinger from the Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team won the national cycling hill-climb title, one of the top races on the UK national cycling calendar. Tejvan began cycling in earnest in 2005, but despite being a promising rider the prospect of a national title seemed very much like a faraway dream.

In the year before his passing in 2007, Tejvan's Guru (or spiritual teacher), Sri Chinmoy, made quite a few references to Tejvan being 'our cycling champion'. Sri Chinmoy preferred to teach his students through silent meditation, and was not one for frivolous comment; often these seemingly offhand remarks had a way of awakening his students to new possibilities. (For example, also in 2006-7, Sri Chinmoy repeatedly and seemingly offhandely asked another student, Grahak Cunningham, whether he had done our longest race, meaning the 3100 Mile race. Even though up until then he had very little ultrarunning experience, Grahak was inspired to start that race and see what happens - he went on to finish the race on his first attempt, and later won the race in 2012).

As the years went past, Tejvan realised that the goal of a national title was indeed possible and put more and more focus on it, both physically in terms of being in the best shape and having the right equipment and approach, but also inwardly in terms of being receptive to divine Grace - a journey which culminated in everything coming together in 2013 for the ultimate prize.

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