HOKA AND IRONMAN BEYOND PODCAST
“As a young boy, I wanted to be one thing only—a professional athlete. What I was learning at that young age is the concept of rejection, that no one wanted me. It’s the worse feeling in the world so I started to run, because no one can cut you from running,” says Dave McGillivray, in a conversation with Eric Gilsenan on the Beyond Podcast.
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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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Dave McGillivray has done and seen more in the world of endurance sport than most of us can imagine. In 1978, he ran 3500 miles across the USA in 80 days, raising money and awareness for the Jimmy Fund, and in doing so, became the first person credited with combining sporting events with raising money. He’s continued that tradition, and over the last 40 years, his events have raised $300 million for charity.
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A serious shout-out to Dave McGillivray, race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and longtime endurance athlete for completing the Ironman World Championship triathlon in Hawaii over the weekend.
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Dave McGillivray, race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon, made a triumphant return to the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii on Saturday after a 25-year absence from the event. Now 60 and battling coronary heart disease, McGillivray finished the 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike leg and 26.2-mile run in 13 hours, 34 minutes and 3 seconds while persisting through some of the most difficult wind, sun and heat conditions in the 36-year history of one of the world’s toughest endurance events.
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