Pacer Profile – Chandra Mark
Age: 30 (ish)
Work: Economic Development for the Province of Saskatchewan
Date Joined Pacers: I started running with Ted Jaleta and a few other keeners in 1991. Over the past 20 years, I have been running with him and his group when in Regina.
What running has brought to your life: Running has helped me enjoy life by solving an infinite amount of life’s daily problems, reducing stress, feeling accomplished, keeping fit, feeling happy and proud.
Running Goal: After a perfect training season I would like to run a sub-1hr30min half marathon. I would also like to complete full marathon in 3hr30. Right now I am coming back from soccer injury that laid me up for 18 months so I am just happy to be running. So happy.
Personal Best:
5km: 19m05s
10km: 42m
21.1km: 1h33m56s
Poker hand: Queen-high flush, good for about a hundred and seventy bucks
Poker hand while running: Kings over nines
Hold breath underwater: 43 seconds
Hard boiled eggs eaten on empty stomach: 1 (after that, your stomach is no longer empty)
Boomerang throw: 238 metres
Memorizing value of π: to 67,000 digits
Monopoly: $17,520 (net worth)
Favourite Quote: I have two favourite quotes.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…” Mark Twain
Bonus quote: “If something sounds contradictory, it isn’t.”
Additional bonus quote: “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
Favourite running mantra: I am not telling it because that’s how I run fast!
Other Interests: I love spending time with my family and traveling. Combining these two activities is my utopia. I have traveled to over 50 countries and half of these with a family member. My 6-year old daughter has been to 20 countries already!
I also love languages (fluent in French, Mandarin and English), reading, incorporating slight exaggerations into personality profiles, rugby, soccer, and, according to my kids, Sponge Bob Square Pants.
