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.

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The full marathon covers 26.2 miles from the start in front of the Miami Heat’s Kaseya Center in downtown Miami at 601 Biscayne Blvd. and concludes four blocks south of the start at 301 Biscayne Blvd. Participants, cross over to Miami Beach and include the Rickenbacker Causeway and leafy neighborhoods in Brickell and Coconut Grove.