October Workout

This morning

I reinvented

the runner inside

it was fall everywhere

leaves everywhere on Buehler’s trail

but it was almost shirts off weather

high, 60s and humid

the kind of perfectibility that the Piedmont produces in October

an array of leaves softening the trail beneath

I warmed up

down around the fitness loop

thought

I should run my K’s here

but I want the track

for pop and speed—precision

I’ve not worked out in some weeks and I seek a measuring rod

where am I really

not

where would I like to be

or where should I be

no 

who am I

today 

as runner

Results were fair, but the morning was perfect

And some perfect

must always be enough