SRI CHINMOY

(1931 - 2007)

This site started out as my running blog 16 years ago, but as time has gone on its expanded to include triathlon, cycling, trekking, kayaking and whatever else I try my hand at. The common thread is "Self-Transcendence", a term popularised by Sri Chinmoy, who has been my spiritual teacher since 1993. Best known as a meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy was a decathlete in his youth and later an endurance athlete and record-breaking weightlifter. He encouraged his students to make exercise and endurance sport a part of their yoga. He once said "Each step forward has a sacred meaning of its own", and that's how this site acquired it's name.

Most years I get to blog about my active travels - adventures such as hiking in Tanzania, mountain biking around the temples of Cambodia, climbing Mt Agung in Indonesia, canoeing in the Cevennes and trail-running in Yosemite. The lockdown era has made things very different of course and in 2020 through to the early months of 2021 I was mostly confined to running virtual marathons and many shorter virtual races, against friends from all around the world, without setting foot outside my local area. Things are opening up now though with Iron and Half-Iron distance triathlons booked up for the summer and a number of endurance bike rides, plust my first proper fell race for over a year, completed wthin the last few weeks.

Garga Roger Chamberlain