I’m a Runner: Sarah Palin
By Dan Simmons
From the August 2009 issue of Runner’s World
When did you start running?
I grew up in a running family. My parents caught the running craze in the mid ’70s and we grew up doing family runs. I’ve been running now easy for 35 years.
Do you remember your first race?
My dad was a track coach and he’d get all the neighborhood kids together and take us to Anchorage for track meets when we were very young. Anchorage is 50 miles from Wasilla. And ever since we were little, we’d do 10-K races as family fun runs…