Gov. Sarah Palin: Strong Female, Mother, American, Leader
Sarah Palin and Baby Trig
American Woman
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I’M A RUNNER: SARAH PALIN
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-410–13221-0,00.html
“During each of my five pregnancies I worked out until right before the babies were born…”
“Taking a lunch-hour run works for me logistically as a mom. Getting out after work means being away from my kids for another hour, which makes me feel guilty…”
“I don’t like to talk while I’m running. It’s the only time I really am alone, so it’s a precious time. If I do a race with friends, they know I’m not going to run alongside them but it’s fun to start and finish together. Running with [1-year-old son] Trig in the baby jogger is nice since I don’t have to say anything. He likes to hear me sing…“
“But the most precious experience I’ve had running was a few summers ago when I was training for a marathon and my son Track—and I named him Track for running—would drive out in front of me and plant water bottles along the route. I felt so spoiled, like the queen of the running world to have a kid who was all cool with his pickup truck, dropping off water for me on my long runs. And he’d put a note on the bottles, saying, ‘Love you, mom’ and ‘Run hard, mom.’ It was just the most precious summer of my life to have that and then to cap it off with an all-time marathon best [3:59:36]. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the whole world…”
“They [Sarah's parents] taught me self-discipline and goal setting…”
“We like to have other people participate in these activities with us because, as Plato said, ‘You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation…’”
“During the campaign, when people asked me about my favorite authors, I said C.S. Lewis, John Steinbeck, and Dr. George Sheehan…”
“What I’ve been doing lately is bringing Piper—she just turned eight and she’s really starting to get into running. We do a goal setting-thing where we pick a spot on the road up ahead and that’s our goal, then we set another goal. It’s been a blast bringing Piper into this these last couple of months…”
Keep running through pregnancies?
“Um-huh, I do. But like with this last one with Trig, I was pregnant with him in the wintertime so I didn’t run as much. But I still went to the gym and did the elliptical and lifted and did a couple different classes. With each of the kids I worked out until they were born.”How long after giving birth before you’re running again?
“It wasn’t like the very next week, it would be weeks. With Trig, it was relatively soon because I felt so good throughout the pregnancy and so great recovering, it was just a couple of weeks later and I was running again…”
“When I do listen [to music when running], I crank up old Van Halen, old AC/DC. I have a nice routine: I kick off my runs with the old Van Halen and AC/DC, then I get into my country music, then I always wrap it up with a couple mellow Amy Grant songs…”
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Oh, wow! She just blows me away!
Me too! She is great!