According to the formula, Michelle earned an A, but when the time came for grades, the teacher said she didn't give A's. We talk in the beginning, but once the workout gets going, she is all business."Īnd there is this: In high school, Michelle once had a typing teacher who started the class by handing out a chart showing students what grades they could expect based on how many words per minute they typed. She jumps rope 200 times without messing up. The mother is evident in the daughter every time Michelle Obama, 43-Ivy League graduate and possible First Lady-works out at the gym, where she is, according to her close friend Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, "one of the women who leave you in the dust. "You don't run just to be running-you run to win." "If I can't do it fast, I'm not doing it," she says. She was good, she had speed-she even competed in the national Senior Olympics-but after a fall a few years ago left her unable to hit her stride, she dropped the sport without hesitation. On the far side of her 50th birthday, Robinson took up running. Of all the stories I've heard about Michelle Obama, the most telling might be one about her mother, 70-year-old Marian Robinson, a tall woman with impeccable posture, a vivid smile, and excruciatingly high personal standards. Meet the woman Barack Obama couldn't run without. She' driven, determined, and not easy to impress, but also warm, wry, and unpretentious. Her mother calls her often (they're very close).
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