The Mayonnaise Cup

At the one-mile point in the Chico Marathon I heard the time: 7:46. I said to myself, "It's too fast." Then it went on, went on. At every mile when I heard my time, I felt it was too fast.
 
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ERG powder I took many times. It helped, but the best was water. As soon as I drank water, I got energy. Before the race I didn't have to drink tea or coffee; water was enough.
 
-8 March 1981 
 
 

[Source: "The Mayonnaise Cup" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 5, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]