'The reason why I run is for them.' Marine Micah Herndon was feet from the finish line at the Boston Marathon when his legs locked up—but that didn't stop him, as he crawled to the end in honor of the friends he lost in Afghanistan.
As other runners rushed past him, Micah Herndon of Tallmadge, Ohio, was on his hands and knees, dragging himself to the end of the race after his legs gave out.
"You just gotta push through it, you know? Once I realized I couldn't achieve and maintain my goal pace, I had one goal in mind, and that was just to finish that race on my own," he said. "One way of coping with that is running, and to honor them, because they're not here anymore and they can't run anymore. Just to honor their names and their family that's still here.", which he finished in 2 hours and 59 seconds last year.
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