Maickel Melamed ,a Venezuelan man who suffers from muscular dystrophy completed the Chicago Marathon early Monday morning, 17 hours after it started.

"When you cross this finish line, you think to yourself, 'I can do anything in my life,'" said Maickel , the last of more than 40,000 finishers.
It was the third marathon for the 38-year-old Caracas resident, but also the toughest. Unlike previous 26.2-mile races he completed in New York and Berlin, he was told to run on the sidewalks, not the streets.

 "My message is: If you dream it, make it happen," he told NBC. "Your life is the most beautiful thing that could happen to you. Make the best with that, and share the best of that. We come here to make a team. We come here to construct the best world that the children — our children — deserve." 

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