Spring Returns

… to my step?  Maybe a little.  Spring pushes me to start jogging again.  Actually, it removes some of the winter obstacles to jogging, I still have to do the pushing.  The first few times out this spring I walked intermittently, but last week, for the first time in a while…

I jogged the entire three miles

And placed in the upper deciles

Competition was nolo

(I was running solo)

And I finished with gasps and not smiles.

Two in a row.

Today I jogged all the way round

Forty minutes of heels pounding ground

Often gasping for air

Yet many will swear

It’s the way inner peace can be found.