Lori Fox told her story to producer Tanvi Kumar for an episode of The Daily Rally podcast. It has been edited for length and clarity.
When I was in the hospital, my neurologist sat down to talk about what my prognosis was. I remember saying to him, “Am I gonna run again? Can I run again?” And he put his hand on mine in a very grandfather-ly way and said, “Let’s just start with walking.” And I thought, I don’t think so. I thought, No, I’m gonna run again. I definitely am.
I just retired from teaching. I was a speech language pathologist for 39 years. I’m a mom, a friend, a sister, a daughter, an aunt. I am a master coach as well.
Interestingly, I never considered myself an athlete. I never considered myself to be a runner. I grew up in the age before Title IX, so I never had that opportunity to be part of a sport. I thought it was just something that was not going to be a part of my life.
In 2011, a couple of weeks before my son was to graduate from high school, my husband at the time sat me down and said he wanted a divorce. So after he left and my son was at school, I found myself in this place that…
