{"id":4841,"date":"2015-10-18T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2020-02-12T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:06:21","slug":"running-through-history-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/running-through-history-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Through History in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ten years ago I was completely obsessed with long distance running. I was living in Florida at the time, and every day I would wake up early and just run miles and miles and miles and miles for no apparent reason\u2014in a Forrest Gump sort of way. Eventually these obsessions led to me enter the 2006 Rome Marathon<\/a>. (In case you\u2019re wondering, no, I didn\u2019t even scare the Kenyan contingent at the front of the pack. Indeed, they nearly lapped me.)<\/p>\n Then several months ago with the big 5-0 on the near horizon, I decided that I\u2019d better \u201cget running\u201d again, if only to keep up with my two year-old figlia<\/em>, Demetra, who was born with the boundless energy of a hummingbird after three shots of espresso.<\/p>\n