Stride Instruction

Yesterday when I was finishing a six-mile run on 150th Street, a young boy came up to me and said, "Nice style, but you need longer strides."
 
He began demonstrating, saying that after each stride I should pause and press the ground with my toes. "In this way your stride becomes longer."
 
He was very nice and demonstrated this for two minutes or so. I did not tell him that I know all the different stride techniques.
 
-21 September 1979 
 

 
[Source: "Stride Instruction" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 2, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]