Read Team Fox member Matt Wilbur’s amazing personal story:

I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in fall 2002. I decided to consider this merely an inconvenience. I had been a pretty serious recreational runner, running 25 marathons with a personal record of 2:59:40. In spring 2009, I joined Team Fox and made a commitment to run my first marathon in years with my 32-year-old daughter Kristen, a pretty good marathoner herself. That November, in just over 7 hours, we crossed the finish line of the ING NYC Marathon together.
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It’s New York City marathon weekend. The nervous energy is infectious and exhilarating. At the Expo, the Road to the Finish movie about the course keeps bringing tears to my eyes. I’m not running this year. It’s my wonderful husband John who is. So I wonder why I’m so amped. I conclude that there are two things that get me – this public, community, loving, screaming, outreach – meets private, personal, commitment, pain, and joy.

I wish we could do this all the time. Scream our lungs out for each other every day. Say, “You are awesome, you are incredible, you can do this thing, I LOVE YOU.” Why don’t we? We are all running. Plus, it’s the abandon of it, of our enthusiasm, that is beautiful to me. Like the way we talk to the very young and look right into their eyes. Our lack of embarrassment in our, “Yes you can.” Anyway, that all makes me cry. And if I really knew what people go through all the time, walking around me, how would it change things? I guess we mostly do the best we can.

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