Some people describe an epiphany as having been “hit by a truck.” For Suzanne Luhr, this isn’t just a figure of speech.
The lifelong Wyoming resident was in her 50s when she was literally struck by a truck, cycling down a busy Laramie street on a lunch break from her job as a geologic map-maker at the University of Wyoming.
The collision left her with a broken femur — “I totaled my bicycle and I totaled my leg,” as she puts it — and put her out of work for a month.
It also put her on the path to becoming a champion powerlifter and a sponsored athlete.
But that comes later.
To recover from the accident, Luhr — whose feathery gray, shoulder-length hair and rectangular glasses make her look more like a librarian than a lifter — started physical therapy, which got her back on her feet.
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