How Many Miles?

The other day my road crew was following me in a car as I was running. After I had run only six miles, a fisherman started screaming at me, "Keep on running, run faster." Then he asked, "How many miles have you run?"
 
The boys are such jokers. I had run only six miles, but they told him twelve miles.
 
-25 July 1979
 

[Source: "How Many Miles?" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 1, Agni Press, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]