Twenty-Four-Hour Friends

At least ten times Jim Roser spoke to me during our twenty-four-hour race. I have never seen a runner who encouraged me so much. He was so nice. He was always cheerful and always had something nice to say. Once he said that he wanted to pronounce my name correctly because so many people were pronouncing it incorrectly.
 
At one point Nathan Whiting-the one with the long hair-said to me, "You do so many things."
 
I said, "I can't run."
 
He said, "So what? So many other things you are doing."
 
When I stopped to take rest, he said, "Everybody needs rest." He is very kind-hearted.
 
Dave Peabody, the tall man, is also very nice. He shook my hand.
 
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[Source: "Twenty-Four-Hour Friends" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 7, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1982.]