SOUL RELAY: From Suffering to Enlightenment
"From Suffering to Enlightenment" A 10-day and 10-night continuous ultramarathon is taking place from February 28 to March 10 at the 700-meter Olympic Sports Center track in Xiamen, China. This 240-hour continuous race is being held in Asia for the first time. Previously, only 6-day continuous races had been organized in China and Japan. Mongolian athlete Budjargal Byambaa is competing in this historic event to run 1,600 km in 10 days and set a new world record. He is an experienced ultrarunner:
- In 2024, in New York City, United States, he ran 1,315 km in 10 days and won 1st place.
- In 2025, in Japan, he ran 931 km in 6 days and also secured 1st place. Budjargal Byambaa has announced that he is dedicating this run to Terry Fox. He wears a shirt with the slogan: “Learn from World Hero Terry Fox”, and his support team wears the same message.
Why is he dedicating his run to Terry Fox?
SOUL RELAY can be understood as a “Relay of the Spirit” — a transmission of enlightenment from one awakened soul to another. It is similar to a relay race, where athletes carry a baton and pass it on to the next runner to continue the race. In this case, it is a spiritual baton — passed from Terry Fox to Budjargal Byambaa, and from Budjargal Byambaa to the world. Through the act of running, he seeks to transmit spiritual light. This run is not merely a sporting event. It is a living demonstration of humanity’s ability to overcome oneself — to awaken courage and hope, to endure suffering and transcend it, to push beyond limits and reach enlightenment through the evolution of the soul.
Summary
“SOUL RELAY” means a Relay of Enlightenment. It is the spiritual transmission from suffering to awakening. Budjargal Byambaa has received Terry’s spiritual will, and through this run, it is now being passed on to the world. In 2016, Budjargal Byambaa visited the Terry Fox Statue in Vancouver, Canada, where he took a photo wearing his race medal. In 2017, he visited the headquarters of the Terry Fox Foundation in Toronto. Budjargal Byambaa aims to continue spreading Terry Fox’s heroic legacy to more people around the world.
