Looking for the First Mile

At the first mile I didn't see the mile-marker or the clock. Finally I said, "I must have already passed it. I couldn't have taken nine minutes for the first mile."
 
-25 October 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "Looking for the First Mile" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 12, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]