RUNNING USA
BOSTON – After all other participants had long finished their Boston Marathon journeys, Dave McGillivray crossed the finish line at 7:28 p.m. yesterday evening.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Every year, runners from around the world arrive in Boston ready to perform extraordinary acts of endurance and athleticism, many of them writing their names into the history books.
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RUNNING USA
It took 1,310 miles to get here, but because of the support and encouragement of family, friends, and colleagues, I was able to finish my 50th Boston Marathon this past Monday evening.
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BOSTON GLOBE
When race director Dave McGillivray, 67, ran his first Boston Marathon in 1972, his grandfather was waiting at Mile 24 in Brookline. And waiting and waiting.
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BOSTON GLOBE
When race director Dave McGillivray, 67, ran his first Boston Marathon in 1972, his grandfather was waiting at Mile 24 in Brookline. And waiting and waiting.
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WICKED LOCAL METROWEST
HOPKINTON TO BOSTON — Everyone knows the guy up front.
He’s likely run through your town — or continent.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
Dave McGillivray will hit a major milestone Monday if everything goes as planned, which is almost always the case with the famed Boston Marathon race director.
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In his memoir, The Last Pick, Dave McGillivray laments his childhood failures in sports. He had big dreams—he wanted to play second base for the Boston Red Sox—but was judged too small, too slow, too weak to even make the youth teams. He faced rejection at every turn.
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CAPE COD TIMES
As Carol Wright, 79, wound her way through “seven little towns” — from Hopkinton to Boylston Street — during the 2021 Boston Marathon last week, she was “pretty wiped out,” by the time she reached Heartbreak Hill.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
Wow.
Dave McGillivray did it again. This time back on the course, at night, in October.
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TRIATHLETE MAGAZINE
Let’s start with the obvious: Since I wrote the coffee table books to celebrate the 25th, 30th, and 40th anniversary of the Ironman World Championship, I love the history, traditions, and legends of what I consider the most important one-day endurance event on the planet. In my opinion, a huge part of what makes the Ironman World Championship so damn special is the Big Island of Hawaii itself.
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THE GARDNER NEWS
There will be no race Monday, but the day will be a full one for the man who annually runs Boston after the event ends.
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THE MILFORD DAILY NEWS
Dave McGillivray actually ran 27.2 miles on Monday. The Marathon's race director rose at 4 a.m. to run 26.2 miles near his North Andover neighborhood, the 49th time he has run a marathon on Patriots Day - the first 47 coming at the Boston Marathon, which hasn't been held in person since 2019 because of the pandemic.
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CISION
For those who will miss the Boston Marathon in April, the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (MABVI) has created the Coast 2 Coast Challenge.
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SIX MINUTE MILE
Dave talks about his business (DMSE) pivoting during the pandemic, how running can raise self-esteem, injury prevention, and much more.
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METROWEST DAILY NEWS
Dave McGillivray, race director for the Boston Marathon the past 33 years who has run the race 47 times, will be churning out the miles on Monday.
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KDRV NEWSWATCH 12
MEDFORD, OR — If you saw Dave McGillivray running down Barnett Road on Thursday morning, you were the witness to global greatness.
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KOBI-TV NBC5
MEDFORD, OR — A historic run across the country in just 80 days. A Medford, Massachusetts man has returned to the Rogue Valley almost 42 years after he set off on his famous run from Medford, Oregon to his hometown.
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RACE RAVES
If there’s one word that best sums up the year in racing, it’s “WOW.” One weekend in October may have seized the spotlight, but remarkable performances were seemingly everywhere you looked, as was one conspicuous and controversial shoe. And while we can’t predict what next year may bring (after all, we don’t have 2020 vision! 😂), we can take an awestruck look back at some of the top moments from a historic 2019 that defied description and exceeded all expectation.
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