“There was no way I was going to stop. I had to beat my best time ever for Papa. He will still be at all my races, watching from heaven.”
, but the memorial was an hour and a half after the race, and I was scatter-brained. Maybe I didn’t tie his shoe,” Logan’s dad, Craig Smith, toldJust six days before Logan’s race in his hometown of Flower Mound, Texas, his grandfather Jimmie Smith, 71, passed away unexpectedly because of a presumed sudden heart attack. A lifelong runner, Jimmie had inspired Logan to run from an early age.
“My dad ran 300 to 400 road races,” Craig said. “He wouldn’t have wanted Logan to miss it, so we moved the memorial to later in the day.”. “I could feel Papa watching me. He always liked to come to my races.”, Logan took off. But when he hit the halfway mark, his left shoe flew off.“People told me to stop and put my shoe back on,” he said. “But there was no way I was going to stop. I had to beat my best time ever for Papa. He will still be at all my races, watching from heaven.
Logan’s dedication and grit didn’t come as much of a surprise to those closest to him, though, including his coach, Brad Lutz of
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