Sarah: always running
The Governor of Alaska is interviewed in the August Runner’s World, whence this picture was swiped, and she’s definitely the type to go the distance, hang the consequences:
I went for a run at John McCain’s ranch a couple of days before the debate with Joe Biden. My favorite thing in the world is to run on hot, dusty roads. I don’t get enough of that in Alaska. So I was in heaven and there were plenty of hills so I knew my thighs were going to just throb and my lungs were going to burn and that’s what I crave.
I like running alone and having the Secret Service with me added a little bit of pressure. I’m thinking I gotta have good form and can’t be hyperventilating and can’t be showing too much pain and that adds a little more pressure on you as you’re trying to be out there enjoying your run. Then I fell coming down a hill and was so stinkin’ embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me. My hands just got torn up and I was dripping blood. In the debate you could see a big fat ugly Band-Aid on my right hand. I have a nice war wound now as a reminder of that fall in the palm of my right hand. For much of the campaign, shaking hands was a little bit painful.
The Secret Service, incidentally, lived up to their name by never saying a word about it.
The shoes (since you’re going to ask): Asics. More photos here.
McGehee »
2 July 2009 · 12:47 pm
I believe those mountains behind her in some of those pics are the Chugach. Very spectacular backdrop for Anchorage, and on most days that city’s main claim to being within seeing distance of Alaska (as we who lived in the other 99% of Alaska liked to say).
McGehee »
2 July 2009 · 12:47 pm
…and what am I thinking, commenting on the background of those pictures!?
Lisa Paul »
2 July 2009 · 12:52 pm
Hmmm. This must be her attire for the photo shoot. Or she was only running a 5K. Because anyone who runs — or even walks — distance knows that over 5 miles, spandex and copious amounts of KY Jelly are the only way to avoid the dreaded “road burn”. Doesn’t matter how thin your thighs are, your skin will be torn off your appendages by any loose fabric.
CGHill »
2 July 2009 · 1:00 pm
Having looked at the other pictures in the offering, some of them very carefully, I am reasonably certain that this is purely photo-shoot garb.
McGehee »
2 July 2009 · 7:42 pm
I confess I was a tad disappointed at the posiness of at least one of the pics. I hope that was the photog’s idea, but if so it would have been nice if the Governor had demurred. Dignity is sexy too.
CGHill »
3 July 2009 · 2:23 pm
Current banner at cnn.com:
Who would have thought there were any GOP sources close to Palin? Not this guy.
CGHill »
3 July 2009 · 3:02 pm
In fact, she’s not going to finish this term. Given her long-standing tendency to go the distance, this can mean only one of one thing.
McGehee »
3 July 2009 · 3:24 pm
Gah. Who the @#$!! is advising her? Seeking and winning a second term were the two things most likely to improve her image outside Alaska. Now she’s just going to look like a flake — which, sadly, is already how too many people view her.
I’d write her off, but I wrote off her chances of winning the governorship in 2006 after she got the nomination, and look what happened.
CGHill »
3 July 2009 · 4:06 pm
For now, I take her at her word that she’s done with politics.
In the meantime, the important thing is to kill Waxman/Markey.