You Want Bloody Nipples? You Got Bloody Nipples!

I’m sorry.  I used that attention-grabbing headliner under false pretenses.  I can only offer you one measly bloody nipple. 

This particular bloody nipple belongs to my brother, Joey Wollin.  He completed the Green Bay Marathon on Sunday along with his gf, Corey.  Jess completed it too.  Here she is at mile 26, barely breaking a sweat and having the time of her life apparently.

I’m kidding, she was actually quite delusional at this point.  She has no recollection of seeing me here when I took this photo even though I was like 5 feet from her and I was cheering for her and she looked at me.  No memory though, she says.  I believe it, running that far and long does weird things to your body and mind.

I did not complete the marathon.   I had to drop out around mile 15 because of aching knee pains, which I later found out was a flared IT band.  It’s my own fault.  I ran too fast in the beginning of the course and did not keep up my normal pace.

The problem is that I see these 95-year old dudes just cruising through the course and then I have to pass them.  There’s no way I’m going to let Blue beat me to the finish.   But then I over exert myself and I paid the price for it.  Plus bad genes.  I’m going to blame them too.

So I had to take the walk of shame back to Lambeau where the finish line was located.  Well, since guys don’t have a walk of shame (walk of fame, what what!) I can only imagine that is what a walk of shame feels like.  It stinks.

I probably could have limped in the rest of way but I basically did that last year and I didn’t want to jeopardize the 2013 kickball season.   We’ve got a title to reclaim.

Even though I finished the GB marathon last year, I really wanted it to be official this year and get a recorded time.  This was going to be my last race and then I was going to put this horse out to stud.  But now I have to run another one of these stupid things.  Oh well.

I’ve got to do some foam roller stretches now.  Those are fun.  Somebody get Steven Spielberg on the phone, I’ve got an idea for Zero Dark Thirty 2.