Vanity Fair? For Sarah Palin, Not as Much as Runner's World

Former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has been refusing interviews right and left, but she's given Runner's World five pages worth of everything you could ever want to know about her adventures as a runner including shoe preference, most memorable run during the campaign, and running with her family.

Since she hasn't been so forthcoming with Vanity Fair and has given the magazine the runaround, national editor Todd S. Purdum relies on confirmed and unconfirmed sources to produce six pages of what conservatives are calling a smear of the Alaska governor.

Seven months after losing a presidential election, most VP candidates would have faded into the woodwork. But not Palin. She continues to draw crowds, sustain interest, and raise money, proving to supporters and critics alike that if she gets the chance to run in 2012, she won't be running on empty.

_{Sarah Palin in June 2009
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