What did Sarah Palin say about racing Obama in Runners World Magazine?
Apparently Sarah Palin isn’t ready to quit racing against President Barack Obama. But it’s no longer a presidential race we’re talking about. According to Palin, in an interview with Runner’s World Magazine, she’s pretty sure she could beat the president in a race. “I betcha I’d have more endurance,” she told Runner’s World in an article appearing in the magazine’s August edition. In Palin’s interview with Runner’s World, she discusses her love of running and shares some pretty funny stories about her running experiences. She even dishes a story we never heard during the election, about an embarrassing fall she took while running in the company of the Secret Service. But most of the attention over the interview has come from her claim that she could take President Obama in an endurance race. “[If] it were a long race that required a lot of endurance,” she said, “I’d win.” If you don’t believe the talk, Palin has the pictures to prove it. The magazine features several pictures of Govern
Palin confident she can outrun Obama Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is confident Barack Obama can be beaten — in a long distance run. The former Republican vice presidential candidate told Runner’s World Magazine if it came down to a foot race between the two famous politicians, she’d likely come out on top. “I betcha I’d have more endurance,” Palin said in an interview published on the magazine’s Web site Tuesday. “My one claim to fame in my own little internal running circle is a sub-four marathon. It wasn’t necessarily a good running time, but it proves I have the endurance within me to at least gut it out and that is something. “If you ever talk to my old coaches they’d tell you, too,” she continued. “What I lacked in physical strength or skill I made up for in determination and endurance. So if [it] were a long race that required a lot of endurance I’d win.” The avid runner also revealed an accident she had only days before the vice presidential debate last fall, when she fell on a trail
Sure, she got clobbered last November, but could Sarah Palin beat Barack Obama in a good old-fashioned footrace? “I betcha I’d have more endurance,” the Alaska governor, a longtime runner (and marathoner), says in a folksy and revealing interview on RunnersWorld.com. “So if it were a long race that required a lot of endurance I’d win.” As for going one-on-one with President Obama on the basketball court, last year’s running mate to GOP presidential candidate John McCain – who was known as “Sarah Barracuda” on her high-school hoops team – is not so cocksure. “[He] towers over me and I wouldn’t be complaining about an unfair advantage there, but maybe I’d do better playing H-O-R-S-E with him than one-on-one.” Sources: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20288827,00.
