My Pacer-Coach

My coach, Pahar, ran with me today to pace me during the ten-kilometre race. I was running and he was jogging. Pahar is often my pacer for distances from one mile to twenty-six miles. But when I was his age I could definitely have defeated him. He is not an eleven-second sprinter. His timing for one hundred metres is fourteen seconds. In my entire athletic career I never ran the hundred so slowly! I started with twelve seconds and then improved. Of course, I was running without shoes-farmer's feet-on a cinder track. Otherwise, my timing would have been better.
 
-10 October 1981 
 
 
 
[Source: "My Pacer-Coach" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 7, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1982.]