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we graduated from college Mark and I got married in Madison. Weâd planned every detail ourselves, and I loved that day so much because it was a total representation of who we were. The university let us get married in an alumni building right on Lake Mendota. Even though I had received the first installments from my Reebok contract, we were on a budget, especially because weâd invited 250 guests. The university gave us a great deal on food and went out of their way to make the day special. Mark made the wedding programs on his computer and printed them off at the local copy shop. I didnât realize it was customary to order flowers for the church, so we didnât have any, but it didnât matter. All of our friends from the baseball and track teams were there, and the men in the wedding party wore Reebok high-tops, donated by the person whoâd signed me to my contract, whowas also there. It was casual, to say the least, but it was beautiful in its simplicity, and an amazing day.
Markâs parents sent us to Hawaii for our honeymoon, and then we prepared to drive from Wisconsin out to Malibu. Mark would attend Pepperdine for law school, and I would train for my first Olympics the next year. I cried as we left Wisconsin, but as Mark predicted, my tears only lasted five minutes. It was time to go for the gold. I had wanted to leave Wisconsin before Iâd even started college or met Mark, and now that my horizons had been expanded so much in the past four years, I was more than ready to go. I donât think I realized at the time how much Peter did to help my running through our day-to-day training, and so I figured it would be fine for him to send me workouts via fax, as weâd planned when I decided to move away. Any anxiety I felt had to do with my running, and how well I would or wouldnât live up to Reebokâs expectations and find my place within the professional running world. But, for the moment, I was excited to see what would come next.
Chapter 5
CHASI NG GOLD
I loved Malibu right away. It was everything Wisconsin wasnât: perpetually sunny and warm and possessed of a casual, anything-goes vibe I instantly adopted as my own. Just as Mark had been attractive to me because he was so different from the men Iâd grown up with, Malibu was a whole new world, and I loved it. Maybe I hadnât made it to UCLA for college as Iâd dreamed, but now I was finally free to start living my own life, and I was going to do so in California.
We used the money from my Reebok contract and the endorsement deals Iâd also signed with Proctor & Gamble (Pert Plus), Clairol, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and KikkomanSoy Sauce to put a down payment on a 1,300-square-foot house in a more affordable section of Malibu and soon settled into the laid-back beach lifestyle. Even though Mark was busy with law school and I was in training, with my sights set on the 1992 Olympics the following summer, we still managed to find time for nights out at our favorite restaurants and afternoons by the Pacific with friends. Having grown up in landlocked Wisconsin, I found the ocean mesmerizing and could spend hours walking along the shoreline, picking up shells and sea glass. And I loved to run down to the beach from our house as part of my daily training.
I was happier than Iâd been in a long time. Best of all, I was free of the watchful eyes Iâd constantly felt on me in Wisconsin. It was such a relief to get a break from always feeling that I had to be perfect, that everyone was watching me, that I was living for other peopleâs happiness. Iâd sensed that my father didnât completely support my decision to marry and move away. Of course, true to form, heâd never said anything outright, but there had been tension in the months leading up to our wedding and departure for California. I could sense that my dad felt that I didnât fully appreciate all he had done to support my
Markâs parents sent us to Hawaii for our honeymoon, and then we prepared to drive from Wisconsin out to Malibu. Mark would attend Pepperdine for law school, and I would train for my first Olympics the next year. I cried as we left Wisconsin, but as Mark predicted, my tears only lasted five minutes. It was time to go for the gold. I had wanted to leave Wisconsin before Iâd even started college or met Mark, and now that my horizons had been expanded so much in the past four years, I was more than ready to go. I donât think I realized at the time how much Peter did to help my running through our day-to-day training, and so I figured it would be fine for him to send me workouts via fax, as weâd planned when I decided to move away. Any anxiety I felt had to do with my running, and how well I would or wouldnât live up to Reebokâs expectations and find my place within the professional running world. But, for the moment, I was excited to see what would come next.
Chapter 5
CHASI NG GOLD
I loved Malibu right away. It was everything Wisconsin wasnât: perpetually sunny and warm and possessed of a casual, anything-goes vibe I instantly adopted as my own. Just as Mark had been attractive to me because he was so different from the men Iâd grown up with, Malibu was a whole new world, and I loved it. Maybe I hadnât made it to UCLA for college as Iâd dreamed, but now I was finally free to start living my own life, and I was going to do so in California.
We used the money from my Reebok contract and the endorsement deals Iâd also signed with Proctor & Gamble (Pert Plus), Clairol, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and KikkomanSoy Sauce to put a down payment on a 1,300-square-foot house in a more affordable section of Malibu and soon settled into the laid-back beach lifestyle. Even though Mark was busy with law school and I was in training, with my sights set on the 1992 Olympics the following summer, we still managed to find time for nights out at our favorite restaurants and afternoons by the Pacific with friends. Having grown up in landlocked Wisconsin, I found the ocean mesmerizing and could spend hours walking along the shoreline, picking up shells and sea glass. And I loved to run down to the beach from our house as part of my daily training.
I was happier than Iâd been in a long time. Best of all, I was free of the watchful eyes Iâd constantly felt on me in Wisconsin. It was such a relief to get a break from always feeling that I had to be perfect, that everyone was watching me, that I was living for other peopleâs happiness. Iâd sensed that my father didnât completely support my decision to marry and move away. Of course, true to form, heâd never said anything outright, but there had been tension in the months leading up to our wedding and departure for California. I could sense that my dad felt that I didnât fully appreciate all he had done to support my
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