  We calculate the Regge trajectories of the subleading BFKL singularities and
eigenfunctions for the running BFKL pomeron in the color dipole representation.
We obtain a viable BFKL-Regge expansion of the proton structure function
$F_{2p}(x,Q^2)$ in terms of several rightmost BFKL singularities. We find large
subleading contributions to $F_{2p}(x,Q^2)$ in the HERA kinematical region
which explains the lack of a predictive power of GLDAP-extrapolations of
$F_{2p}(x,Q^2)$ to a domain of small $x$. We point out the relation of our
early finding of the precocious BFKL asymptotics to the nodal structure of
subleading BFKL eigenfunctions.
