Four years ago, the ING Miami Marathon was the first race to brand the hotel card keys. Brilliant!

ING Miami Marathon 15,000 runners in the marathon or half marathon.

ING Run for something better kids run had 4,000 youngsters.

On Saturday 1,500 runners did the 5k, which finished in Miami Beach.

I spent Friday and Saturday selling books and doing seminars at the expo.

Sunday I was at the finish line watching 15,000 happy runners cross the finish line.

 I met Alexis Garcia at the San Francisco Marathon 2008 we ran side by side the last 14 miles of the marathon. We slowed down to run with me.

His story is quite incredible. He left Cuba 16 years ago in Kayak.It took him 55 hours to reach the US. Today he’s a PE teacher and very active in the Miami running community. His wife Marlene did the half marathon and stepdaughter Lauren did the 5k and the kids run.

I call them my Cuban family.

Bart