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Opinion: Condi Rice as you’ve never seen her: She’s really running!

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Recently, we’re published a few items about Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice may be running for the vice presidential nomination to be on a Republican White House ticket with Arizona Sen. John McCain. All the signs are there, as we noted here in detail on The Ticket on Tuesday.

She denies it.

Whatever.

We’ll believe it when we don’t see it.

Meanwhile, right now Rice is running for something else: Her own health. Shari Roan, our LATimes.com colleague over at the new Booster Shots blog, has scored an inside look at an inside look at a Condi Rice workout at the gym.

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Trained as a figure skater and concert pianist, Rice is up at 4:30 a.m. daily to work out, watches the news and ESPN and sweats like a globe-trotting secretary of State working out in the early morning hours.

She’ s even got a personal trainer and feels really good about herself, she says, now that the Californian has passed the big 5-0. She feels especially good running up stairs.

Or, being in top shape for a 53-year-old, maybe doing a different kind of running someday soon with a 71-year-old?

Shari’s got the full report here.

--Andrew Malcolm

Photo Credit: David Y. Lee/Courtesy of Fitness Magazine

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