"My thought was, 'Wait a minute! The boy has just one shoe. What happened?' And he's like 'I lost it a while ago. A couple miles back being in the race. It got stuck in the mud. I just kept going'.

The game featured no ties, and come to think of it, neither did that lost sneaker. Which turned out to be how this affair started. “Yeah, it was my shoe,” Mackenstadt said Monday morning ...