The Slow Runner

During the Westchester Half-Marathon I walked eight or nine times. Shame! Sometimes when I was running, people who were walking were going faster than I was. Since they were walking faster than my running speed, I said, "The best thing is to walk."
 
Then Cahit Yeter came back after he had finished and ran the last mile and a half of the race with me.
 
-28 June 1981 
 
 
 
[Source: "The Slow Runner" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 6, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]