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Twenty minutes without a pulse. A rare inherited disease nobody caught. An identity, built over thirty-nine years, suddenly on the chopping block. How do you rebuild a life when the thing that made you is gone?
Three-time Olympian and Olympic medalist Jenny Simpson says she isn't starting from zero.
You may know Jenny for the bronze in Rio de Janeiro – the first American woman ever to medal in the 1500 meters, and one of the most decorated American middle-distance runners of her generation.
But if that's the sum of your relationship with this human, there's a lot more to her – an unusually rigorous mind for how excellence actually gets built.
A world champion, an American record holder in the steeplechase, and a four-time NCAA champion at Colorado who spent fourteen years as a professional and retired on her own terms.
Then, at a local mile race in June, her heart stopped. What follows is her first account of what happened, recorded eight weeks later, before she had spoken publicly.
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