Battles take flight from an oval treadmill

Rattlesnake bite on a golden Leadville

Ultra roam

Sun searing switchbacks to shout it

I gotta run

Cold desert night at a crippling fast pace

Firehouse fight in a friendless footrace

Soft lifting flow

Revered – no reason to doubt it

I gotta run

I gotta run.  I gotta run

Diminish time risen wonder trail today

The finish line is one hundred miles away

Low morning rite wear a crimson silk cape

No warning light for a frozen landscape

Ecstatic smiles

Mankind’s first fine art without it

I gotta run

Mountainous might a voltaic phantom

Countenance bright cos I know I can run

All the way home

Without even thinking about it

I gotta run