The Madras Run

When I was in Madras, I ran twelve miles in the Madras heat. Afterwards, I went to a store to get some soda. two, three, four, five, six sodas I drank one The owner laughed and laughed.
 
I said to him, "Why are you laughing? You go and run twelve miles!"
 
He said, "I won't be able to run even half a mile."
 
-1 November 1979 
 

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