Virendra and His Blanket

When I had finished nine miles of the half-marathon, I saw Virendra with a big blanket wrapped around him. The nine-mile point was near the finish, so he came to watch after he had completed the race. 
  
 
 
[Source: "Virendra and His Blanket" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 11, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]