Bill Iffrig, the 78-year-old runner photographed after being knocked down by the first explosion at the Boston Marathon Monday, discussed his experience of the blast on CNN's "Piers Morgan Live."
Iffrig scraped his knee when he fell to the asphalt after the explosion, but he insisted on finishing his 45th marathon. One of the finisher assistants offered to assist him with a wheelchair to the finish line, but he didn't need it.
"I had a good day and was feeling really good, and I got down to within about 15 feet of the finishing apron and just [a] tremendous explosion, sounded like a bomb went off right next to me, and the shock waves just hit my whole body and my legs just started jittering around," he said. "[One of the finisher assistants] insisted on getting a wheelchair over there so we started to do that, but then before that was rounded up, I said my hotel's about six blocks away so I think I can make it okay. So they let me get out of there and I went on home to my wife."
CNN host Piers Morgan asked Iffrig what he felt about the perpetrators of the attacks.
"Everybody else is out there having fun and you got one or two people that are trying to destroy the whole thing," Iffrig said. "It's just hard to figure out. Terrorists or whatever they are, I don't know, I don't have much use for it."
Morgan finally asked him if he'd continue running marathons after Monday's events.
"Oh yeah, I don't stop for this," he said.