maickel melamed , 39 , may have come in last place in the 26.2-mile race , but his story touched a city now famous for its own iron-clad will after the boston marathon bombings in 2013 .
melamed has a rare form of muscular dystrophy that makes it hard for him to just walk or walk , but he did n't let that stop him from finishing his fifth marathon at 5 am tuesday morning .