Competitors

In the ten-mile race an old man with a green shirt was in front of me for a while. Then he fell behind. Another runner, a girl in yellow, was getting cramp after cramp. These were some of my competitors.
 
-9 May 1982 
 
[...] 
 
After the awards ceremony a man came up to me and asked me, "How do you like the shoes you are wearing?"
 
I told him, "They are very comfortable."
 
-9 May 1982 
 
 
 
[Source: "Competitors" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 10, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]