Your Races are Terrific

Just before thirteen miles an old man was running faster than me. Whether he was encouraging me or discouraging me, God alone knows. Then he recognised me and said: "Sri Chinmoy, all your races are terrific. I am going to run your marathon in Davis, California next month."
 
-8 March 1981 
 
 

[Source: "Your Races are Terrific" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 5, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1981.]