For all his racing triumphs last season, Martin Truex’s true championship headline came this week when longtime girlfriend Sherry Pollex announced she was cancer free following her last chemotherapy treatment for ovarian cancer. Pollex tweeted a photo on Monday of herself ringing a bell that signaled the end of active treatment and wrote, ‘After 17 months straight, I’m going to live my life!!!!’ Truex and Pollex, who started dating in 2005, are ready to promote ovarian cancer awareness with what they learned from a grueling fight with the disease. ‘She’s going to live her life and enjoy her life,’ Truex said. ‘She had always kind of stayed in the background, but she’s embraced this. She wants to teach other people about what she’s been through. She wants to help a lot of people that are really scared.’
Truex was at the Philadelphia Flyers game Wednesday night after three days in Ohio hunting on a farm he owns with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Truex, Earnhardt and two friends hunt deer and turkeys on the property about an hour outside Columbus, Ohio. ‘It’s an exciting thing to envision the future there and how many years we’re going to sit on the front porch and drink beer,’ Truex said.(Associated Press)
