How Can They Be Ahead of Me?

In our two-mile race in Flushing Meadow Park, after a mile and a quarter I saw Madhuri. I got really puzzled. How could Madhuri be ahead of me? Then I said to myself, "Perhaps she is still completing one mile." Then a little farther on I saw Tanima and Mitali, so I knew they were all still completing one mile.
 
-1 August 1981 
 
 
 
[Source: "How Can They Be Ahead of Me?" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 6, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]