Half Maraton

I did it!!! I Meagan Marie Sparks ran 13.1 miles (in a row!!)  LOL! This weekend my family and I headed up to Rexburg Idaho for the Teton Dam Half Marathon. It was AWESOME!!  My goal was to run the whole race and I am proud to say that I did! My finishing time was 2 hours and 12 minutes (so about a 10 min mile.)  It was the most beautiful day.  The race course was spread across the fields of Rexburg, breathtaking, and a good distraction while running.  It was such a wonderful experience and I can't wait to do it again! I ran it with some of my family, aunts and uncles, cousins and parents.  It was so great to have that support!  And a big thanks to my sisters for coming all the way to Idaho to watch Lizzy. 

A Story Of True Love

One thing can be said about pushing your body to the limits, it brings out emotions.  The good, the bad, the ugly, peoples true colors shining through.  Two days prior to the race my parents purchased shuffle ipods to aid them in their 13.1 mile run. The night before we left for Idaho was spent loading heart pumping songs onto the new shuffles.  Throughout our training we had come to find that running without music was like skydiving with out a parachute. So every effort was taken to ensure we all had fully charged and song loaded ipods come race day. My parents plan was to stay together throughout the race, and they did so.  Everything was going great, until they reached mile 3.  That is when my mom's ipod stopped working.  She tried everything, it was dead (despite having been fully charged the night before). And with still 10 miles to go she didn't know what she was going to do.  That is when my Dad gave my Mom his ipod!  And refused to take it back.  He ran the rest of the race in silence so that my mom could have music. They ran across the finish holding hands with a time of 2 hours and 33 minutes.