Running During the Parade

Yesterday's parade route was seven miles long. From one end to the other, the marchers and floats spread out over 700 metres, practically half a mile. I would run one mile and wait for the parade to go by. Then again I would run one mile and watch the parade.
 
I told one of my attendants, Tejiyan, to be careful. Next year I will run at a seven-minute pace. He said he has started practising running so he will be able to keep up with me while accompanying me.
 
-22 August 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "Running During the Parade" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 11, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]