printAs a runner, I can never get enough of interviews with runners. This is a neat exchange in Runner’s World with Sarah Palin, whose fabulous figure attests to her disciplined habit. Here (July 1):
Unlike Sarah Palin, I’ve kept to moderate distances and have thus preserved my knees. I do ice them, as do I cross train on the elliptical and work with weights. (Also very moderately)
Palin indicates she intends to “get an elliptical.” She states that she likes “it more than the treadmill and it’s easier on my knees.” Good thinking: I would never run anywhere but outdoors. Nor will you catch me on the treadmill. Never. But cross training on the elliptical is very beneficial. Exercising with weights on the ankles at home does wonders for the muscles supporting the knees too.
She likes running in the heat; I love the soft rain.
We both can’t abide running early in the morning (traumatic; not therapeutic), and prefer running alone. Palin says: “I don’t like to talk while I’m running.” Ditto.
Palin, who has a wonderful figure, is also “into Asics runners right now.” I’ve been using Asics top-of-the line Gel for years. It’s a wonderful shoe. I’m sticking with it.
She says running gets harder with age. Sure it does. But running is about mental persistence. Also, it revives the mind like nothing else. While running, I problem solve. It’s quite uncanny. Synaptic connections in the brain must get flooded with neurotransmitters. Or something. This does not happen—to me at least—within the confines of the gym. (I visit the gym, because I must.)
The president is apparently a runner, but Palin ventures: “I betcha I’d have more endurance. What I lacked in physical strength or skill I make up for in determination and endurance.” Very likely, although Obama looks pretty fit. Man power always overtakes in an initial burst, but if the guy is not as fit as the woman, he will fall behind on a longer or tougher run.
Sarah listens to “old Van Halen” during a run. Good choice. I’m impressed. I, however, prefer to stay aware of my surrounds, but then I don’t have a security detail.
Did I say Sarah Palin has a figure to die for? I think I did. Twice. Although I can run, I am unable to steer clear of the chocolate (whole slabs of it at a time). I don’t think Sarah Palin indulges.
I only run if I’m being chased. But I do like a good trek with a moderate pack. (I’m with you; if I’m not behind locked doors or in the car, I’m scanning for threats.) Then lots of push-ups and rifle drills. Squats are my least favorite and I’ve been known to talk myself out of doing them with really flimsy arguments.
I’m not into running at all. I think it has to do with the fact that running was bred out of our gene pool after the Great Trek (a little innocent double meaning there that you might find amusing). Anyways, great choice going with Asics. There is a reason why almost 50% of the runners in the Comrades marathon swear by them. [I didn’t know that; for me it’s been trial and error.]
I do own expensive running shoes. But only because my podiatrist prescribed them after foot surgery. every time I put on my Brooks Beasts I fell like I’m putting Perelli P-Zeroes on a 65 VW Bug.
And Yes Palin is hot! That is why libs [and some conservatives] hate her. Hot, conservative and straight. To libs that is a waste.
I started running at forty, and quickly became known as ‘that nut.’ I was the only idiot running around the Oklahoma hills in Pawhuska, Ok at noon. (Summer 100 and sultry, winter 15 and humid.) Today, I’m older and wiser, my home town has a fitness center 3 1/2 miles from my house. Three times a week in the morning, after breakfast, I take the river path to the hospital, do a set of upper body stuff, walk/jog back before lunch. I would like to get back into five K’s but this exercise seems to keep me sharp enough. I’ve never seen Sarah Palin’s full body picture so I can’t refer to her physically hot body at all. Unimportant anyway, when I was running five K’s, all I saw of women runners were reverse profiles as they zipped past me. I’m surprised about her popularity; I thought all conservatives and libs hated her, not just some.
[Well now, you have to follow the links provided, to keep up the reading tasks, and get to see Palin’s fabulous figure.]
I betcha Sarah is smarter than Barry also.
[Look: the Left has grounds to argue otherwise. However, it cannot dispute her accomplishments as governor, a hands-on, tough, demanding job. What are his?]
Barry’s on the job training as a chief executive of anything is POTUS , this alone should have caused the American people to give great pause in 2008. But for what ever reason they decided to ignore that.
As for Sarah she is one of the people i am looking at to support, if she runs in 2012
Ok, I followed the links, including to the 9-5-08 article which I missed when it came out and I guess Mrs. Palin looks as good as any of the models on Runners World. I’m more concerned with Mr. Bleckert’s comment.”I betcha Sarah is smarter than Barry also” Common sense is better than any other ‘intelligence marker’ by the fact that as governor she is doing her job in Alaska. Barry’s presidential mental superiority has within his first six months on the job done more present and proposed damage to the country’s economy in six months than the last three presidents combined. Nope, Barry may outdo her on a paper test, but under common sense, Mr. Bleckert is right. Sarah is smarter than Barry and probably can outrun him too.