First New York Marathon

The first year I ran the New York Marathon in 1979, I became so tired after fourteen miles. Then I saw Lavanya. She was doing stretching exercises, but I didn't have the capacity even to bend. Then she went ahead.
 
As soon as I would come near Radha, she would take off. Then she would relax. When I would catch her again, she would run faster.
 
-24 October 1981  
 
  
 
 [Source: "First New York Marathon" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 8, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1982.]