Mr. Shea coming back from the trail
Steve Touchette, Special Wicked Correspondent
As a first hand observer to the incident, the first “There Has To Be Blood” award goes to our very own blogster, Mr. Billy Shea. After demonstrating his mountain goat prowess on the single trail Tour of Lynn Woods last Wednesday night, Billy fell prey to the distraction of a street cleaner at the Marblehead Post Office during this past Saturday’s first marathon training run. Merrily running along with Deb, Kate, and myself, and oblivious to what lay beneath him, he suddenly stubbed his toe on a rather “small pebble” and instantly ended up in a heap on the ground. With a bloody knee, hand, and elbow and covered in trail dirt, Billy was unphased and back on his feet to continue running the first leg of the eight mile run along the old Marblehead railroad trail. Luckily up ahead he spied a sprinkler system on a neighbor’s beautiful lawn and stopped to cleanse his wounds. Wary of offending the owner, Billy acted quickly as Deb Touchette shouted “Thank yous” to whoever may have been witnessing this cleansing ritual from inside the house. Billy completed the run, much dirtier and bloodier than he began it, seemingly with all faculties intact (We will be checking with him later to make sure there was no neurological damage). He meets all the qualifications of the award, and as one of his running partners, I congratulate him for proving he is one tough Wicked runner.
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