The Run in the Dark

This morning I ran seven miles while it was still very dark. When it is dark, you forget about speed. You feel that as long as you continue running, it is enough. The first mile I did in nine minutes and the last was at an eight-thirty pace. Altogether I averaged only a nine-minute pace, so God knows how slowly I ran the other five miles. A nine-minute pace is very bad. Of course, I was not racing. But if it had not been dark, I would have taken off at least fifteen seconds per mile.
 
-January 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "The Run in the Dark" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 9, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]