Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto (born August 27, 1970) is a Finnish ultramarathon runner who began running as a hobby at age 25. He currently works as a courier. Aalto is a member of The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. In 2006, Tarja Halonen, the President of Finland, recognized him as an "International Ambassador of Sport".
History In 1999, he started running multi-day races. He ranked all-time second at the 3100-mile Race in 2006. On October 29, 2006, Aalto finished the San Francisco One Day 24 hour endurance race in first place, logging just over in a 24-hour period. Aalto is a three-time champion of The Self-Transcendence Six Day Race in New York City. For three straight years he ran all three yearly Self-Transcendence multidays in New York (six days, , 700 miles).
He won the world's longest certified footrace, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race nine times, finishing the 2015 race at record time 40 days 09:06:21 for a daily average of .
Races + Races Year Races Distance (Miles) Time (days, hours, minutes, seconds) Placing 1999 Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio 700-Mile Race 700 09:09:10:40 1. 2000 Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio 700-Mile Race 700 09:09:44:59 1. 2000 Self-Transcendence 10 Day Race 669 10:00:00:00 2. 2000 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 47:13:29:55 1. 2001 Self-Transcendence 10 Day Race 349 10:00:00:00 — 2001 Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio 700-Mile Race 700 09:20:32:29 1. 2001 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 48:10:56:12 1. 2002 Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race 422 06:00:00:00 1. 2002 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 46:13:27:51 2. 2003 Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race 457 06:00:00:00 1. 2004 Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race 433 06:00:00:00 1. 2004 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 46:06:55:11 1. 2005 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 49:10:28:49 2. 2006 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 43:15:49:33 2. 2007 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 43:04:26:32 1. 2008 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 44:02:42:15 1. 2009 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 43:16:28:06 1. 2010 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 46:07:37:24 1. 2011 Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race 467 06:00:00:00 2. 2011 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 46:07:37:24 3. 2012 Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race 470 06:00:00:00 2. 2013 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 48:16:14:33 3. 2014 Self-Transcendence 10 Day Race 833 10:00:00:00 1. 2015 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 40:09:06:21 1. 2016 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 46:02:54:22 2. 2019 Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race 3100 47:01:39:34 1.
References
Further reading Film Rawal, Sanjay : 3100: Run and Become, Eng. 2018, IMDb 4936398, 79 minutes
External links Video: Fox, 2015 Video: Finish 3100-Mile Race 2011 Video: Six Day Run (trailer)