I got across the line and made it my intention to run this race forever.” I lay down on the sidewalk and told myself, ‘You are going to finish, no matter what.’ I started walking. I remember one year it was so hot I hit the wall at Miami City Hall. “My favorite part is on Tigertail Avenue in Coconut Grove. David Santiago is my hometown marathon and my best challenge,” he said. He is one of 73 “streakers” who have run either the full or half marathon every year since the event’s inception in 2003.
Rolando Colmenares, 51, will be running the Miami Marathon on Sunday for the 20th straight year. “I get worried at every milestone - 10, 15, 20th anniversary - that they’re going to stop, but they have that runner’s resilience, that mindset of ‘I’ll make it to the next corner,’ so I’m hopeful they’ll be back for 21,” said Ruiz, who is also director of the event, which started as the Toyota Prius Miami Tropical Marathon and has been the Life Time Miami Marathon and Half Marathon since 2014. Last year, when the race went virtual, co-founder Frankie Ruiz invited the group he calls “the streakers” to run a 1.4-mile loop around Bayfront Park so they could keep the streak alive. Not even COVID-19 could force these runners to abandon their feat. They always finish, come hell or high humidity, rain, wicked headwinds, broken bones, a broken alarm clock or cancer. Sunday, 73 people will start the 26.2- or 13.1-mile trek again, as they have since the event’s inception in 2003. The streak just kept growing and growing, and then, given the nature of people drawn to endurance tests, it became an obsession.Īt 6 a.m.
“I know the locals are thrilled and the out-of-towners will probably be thrilled as well, as it will be warming up enough in the afternoon to go to the beach.They did not plan to run the Miami marathon or half marathon for 20 years in a row. “I’m excited for those conditions because it’s the one factor we don’t have control over,’’ said Miami Marathon chief running officer Frankie Ruiz.
The combined field of more than 20,000 will likely be ecstatic. Miami Marathon and Half Marathon start that should hover in the low 50s. Twelve years later, runners could welcome a similar fate, with temperatures forecast to drop more than 10 degrees Saturday night into Sunday for a 6:15 a.m.
23, 2015.Įveryone knows that Miami sizzles, so when a cold front enveloped South Florida four hours before the start of the inaugural Miami Tropical Marathon in 2003, a 23-year-old Kenyan named David Ruto blazed to victory in 2 hours 12 minutes 22 seconds - still the event record. Benazzouz Slimani, who won the Miami Marathon in 2009, and 2013 winner Luis Carlos Rivero pose for a picture at a press conference for the Miami Marathon Friday Jan.
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