The Honour System

In the three-mile race, a teenage girl with a bandage around her knee was ahead of me. Then she gave up.
 
The race counted on the honour system. Otherwise, in five or six places you could have taken a shortcut.
 
The first mile, according to Pahar, I did in under eight minutes. But then the second mile was slower because at least twenty times I had to run through puddles.
 
-13 November 1982 
 
 
 
[Source: "The Honour System" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 13, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]