The Friendly Runner

Before the start of our five-mile race, a black man said to me, "So good to see you." Afterwards, when I was at the two-and-a-half mile point and he was at the same spot completing four miles, he greeted me again.
 
4 January 1980 
 

[Source: "The Friendly Runner" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 3, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1980.]