The Shortcut

Vince was helping at the nine-mile point, but I didn't see him. That was the place where I took a shortcut. What could I do? Gary Fanelli was finishing and I wanted to see him.
 
Altogether I ran 14 miles before the marathon and then walked seven or eight miles during the marathon.
 
-3 October 1982 
 
  
 
[Source: "The Shortcut" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 12, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]