Due Maratone Italiane & A Five Marathon Year
I set out at the beginning of this year with a plan, a wind-down marathon plan. I'd done six of them already, most recently in Utah , and Rome before that, and both of them were excruciating. In Utah I found myself crossing the start line, after waking up at 2AM and driving eleven hours the day before, asking myself, why, why have I decided to do this with my life? Especially after the Rome experience, when I'd endured a physical pain I'd not felt since my high school binge-drinking days. While I was in Rome, however, at the expo, I discovered two other marathons I wanted to run. We Run in Art was how they advertised the Florence Marathon , the city I'd been enchanted by since gr.9 art class. And another, a couple of booths down, I Bless You Life , the saying used by St.Francis which they'd made into the slogan for the San Francesco Marathon in Assisi. I'd had an affinity for St.Francis since childhood because he was the patron saint of animals, who famousl...
