{"id":1607,"date":"2013-08-22T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T21:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:28:23","slug":"zoe-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/zoe-romano\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 75: First person to ever run the Tour de France Zoe Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a075
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0August 17
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Zoe Romano
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Zoe Romano<\/a>, the first person to ever run the Tour de France,\u00a0grew up in Portland where she attended Portland High School.\u00a0 In high school she played team sports, such as lacrosse, softball and soccer.\u00a0 Romano didn\u2019t begin her running career until college at the University of Richmond. She graduated magna cum laude in 2009 with degrees in both Spanish and international studies.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left)\u00a0was joined in the studio by Zoe Romano (right), the first person to ever run the Tour<\/p><\/div>\n

An illness during Romano\u2019s sophomore year of college (she had developed an infection in her lymph nodes, serious enough to require surgery after strep throat went untreated) led to the idea of a Pacific-to-Atlantic run, where she raised money for the Boys & Girls Club of America.\u00a0 The run brought her from Huntington Beach, California to Charleston, South Carolina at the age of 23. \u00a0She became the first woman to complete such a run without a support crew.<\/p>\n

Romano detailed for Stevoe the catalyst behind the decision to run the Tour de France.\u00a0 While she was in the process of writting the book recounting her run across the U.S.\u00a0she\u00a0became\u00a0antsy for another adventure.\u00a0 The timing of the Tour de France aligned with her goal to run the ultra-marathon\u00a0while holding the\u00a0ultra-fundraiser.<\/p>\n

The Tour de France has been held annually since it began in 1903, except for when it was stopped for the two World Wars.\u00a0 The route covers 2,115 miles, of which Romano ran 30 miles a day, 6 days a week for 10 weeks.\u00a0 Romano became the first person to ever complete the entire route on foot.<\/p>\n

Romano is bringing awareness and funding to the World Pediatric Project<\/a> (WPP), an international humanitarian organization that provides access to surgical and diagnostic medical care for children in Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Alexander Kreher, a German-born photographer and filmmaker traveled alongside her in a car (with her supplies) and filmed her journey for an upcoming documentary.<\/p>\n

Romano currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.\u00a0 She writes an outdoor column for Ditch Magazine and tutors Spanish. \u00a0On March 22nd, 2013, she was a featured speaker at TEDxRVA.\u00a0 During her TEDxRVA speech, she spoke of her belief that endurance athletics are a powerful platform for discovering the strength of the human spirit.\u00a0 Her mission is to connect local and global communities with her long-distance, endurance running as a way \u201cto inspire them to not just dream big dreams, but to go do them.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zoe Romano, the first person to ever run the Tour de France, was in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio for an interview with host Steve Woods. The two discussed Romano’s recent run of the route of the Tour de France, as well as her accomplishment as the first woman to run across the U.S. without a support crew in 2011. While on the later run, she depended on the kindness of strangers, who offered her to stay at their homes, and says that “American people are far kinder than we believe.” Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}