The Jogging Policeman

This morning I ran four miles and then walked one mile. I wanted to do seven miles, but I didn't have the time.
 
When I was coming back from my run around four-thirty, at the thousand-metre mark what did I see? A policeman jogging. He had no car and he was not running to catch any thief. He had a radio with earphones and he was in his police uniform. He was a real policeman, with a badge and a gun. He was not someone joking or pretending.
 
As soon as I saw him, I smiled at him. Then he said to me either, "Sri" or "Shrai"-I could not hear very well-"Good morning!"
 
When I said to him, "Sir, good morning," he stopped and shook hands with me. He was very fat and very tall at the same time.
 
This was the first time I had seen a policeman jogging. He was going very, very slowly. What he was doing jogging at that hour, God alone knows.
 
-3 June 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "The Jogging Policeman" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 10, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]