When Nancy Letts runs across the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April — and make no mistake, she will cross that line — she will run into the record books.
The O’Fallon, Mo., woman will take home the Six Star Medal for completing the so-called Big Six: Berlin, Chicago, London, New York, Tokyo, and of course, Boston. Amazingly, thousands of other people have accomplished this feat. But as far as the record books show, Letts will be the first deaf woman to earn the Six Star.
Not bad for a woman who only really found out about the medal in 2021.
“I got lucky enough to qualify for Berlin. After that race, my runner friends asked me, ‘Why stop there?’ And I thought, well, why not?” she says.
And with that, Nancy Letts, 48, was on a mission. One whose seed was planted back in 2005. Letts, then single and living in Las Vegas, took up running. In July. Not, she acknowledges now, particularly good timing.
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