The Secret Run

This morning before the ten-mile race, I ran to the three-and-a-half-mile mark in Flushing Meadow Park, and then I ran home.
 
Yasu saw me, then Kalatit and then Edythe. She was in a car, driving to Flushing Meadow to set up. But once I got home I pretended that I had not yet run so I could surprise everyone later.
 
During the race I was afraid Yasu would say, "I saw you running this morning," but fortunately he didn't say anything, so I kept my secret.
 
I was running so slowly during the ten-mile race that I didn't feel tired at all, even after nine miles. Then I waved to Lavanya and Chetana, saying that I was going to go faster for the last mile.
 
So this morning altogether I ran seventeen miles.
 
-9 May 1982 
 
 
 
[Source: "The Secret Run" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 10, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]