MIAMI — The Life Time Miami Marathon brought tens of thousands of runners from around the world this weekend and each participant had their own unique story to why they ran on Sunday.

When Frankie Ruiz set out to organize what would later become the Life Time Miami Marathon, he never anticipated it would one day attract more than 18,000 runners — including thousands from outside the U.

Farouk Gomati was diagnosed with with Guillain-Barré syndrome and he was told he may spend of the rest of his life on a ventilator or in a wheelchair. Eleven years later, he is preparing to run in the

Austin Carter reports on Sunday, expect bumper-to-bumper traffic in Downtown Miami and Brickell all morning until the early afternoon and Miami Beach hot spots like Ocean Drive and Alton Road until about 10 a.