During the Mexico City marathon, Jesús Villanueva's spontaneous act of giving his shoe to runner Jerry Manzano, whose shoe had broken mid-race, enabled Manzano to finish the marathon and qualify for the Boston Marathon.
When Jesús Villanueva attended the Mexico City marathon as a bystander late last month, he didn't expect to help out a runner in the most unusual yet gratifying way.
Villanueva said at some point during the race, one of Manzano's shoed started to break apart with the sole separating. "I yelled at him asking if he wanted mine, to which to my surprise he answered ‘yes,’" Villanueva told FOX Television Stations. RELATED: "I did it spontaneously without really thinking about the magnitude of what I was doing. Another part of me thinks that it was out of empathy," Villanueva added. "Having run several marathons, I put myself in their shoes, and it would have been a tragedy not to be able to finish the marathon."After the marathon finished, Villanueva expected to get his shoe back, but he didn't. He then continued on his day without wearing shoes.
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