{"id":2450370,"date":"2019-10-25T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=314984"},"modified":"2019-10-25T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T04:11:00","slug":"globetrotter-to-talk-saturday-in-basalt-about-her-walk-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/globetrotter-to-talk-saturday-in-basalt-about-her-walk-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Globetrotter to talk Saturday in Basalt about her walk around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polly Letofsky is a motivation speaker who talks around her walk around the world to raise awareness about breast cancer. She will give a presentation Saturday at Basalt Library.<\/strong>
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When Polly Letofsky gives a presentation at the Basalt Library on Saturday about her walk around the world, she will be returning to the site of her first stop on a five-year tour.<\/p>\n

Letofsky started her journey in 1999 in Vail and walked to Basalt on the first day. She went on to cross four continents and conquer 14,000 miles one step at a time. It is believed she was the first woman to walk around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was never a time I felt like quitting,\u201d Letofsky said in a news release about the event. \u201cDuring the darkest, toughest, loneliest times, I thought of the women I was walking for that had been diagnosed with breast cancer. And they are sick and tired of the chemo treatment and the cost of it all and how it has interrupted their lives, and they could never just throw up their arms and say, \u2018Well, I\u2019m done with all this nonsense.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She survived earthquakes, suffered muggings, struggled with language barriers and even experienced religious riots.<\/p>\n

The ultimate challenge came during the aftermath of 9\/11, when she found herself navigating a vastly changed world after the terrorist strikes in America. She finished her walk in 2004.<\/p>\n

Letofsky undertook the arduous trip to build awareness for breast cancer. She is a motivational speaker who shares her story with humor and honest reflection, according to her website, http:\/\/www.pollyletofsky.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Letofsky will return to Basalt with a presentation called \u201cLittle Steps, Big Feat.\u201d Her talk at the Basalt Library is from 5 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

The former Vail resident also wrote a book about the experience called, \u201c3mph: The Adventures of One Woman\u2019s Walk Around the World.\u201d There is also a documentary film entitled \u201cPolly\u2019s Global Walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

She told the Vail Daily in 2005 that she learned to pick her walks<\/a> carefully after her globe-trotting experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m going to go for a walk, I want it to be on a sunny day with a nice path,\u201d she told the Vail Daily. \u201cNo waking up at 4 a.m. to go hike a fourteener.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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