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Massachusetts residents will wake up Monday morning one step closer to normal life, as the state moves forward with the latest stage of its economic reopening, permitting activities such as road races, amusement and water parks, and increased capacity for stadiums like Fenway Park.
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- Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray on the state's return to road races.
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As Massachusetts approaches the resumption of road races, a longtime race director for the Boston Marathon says there's a lot for organizers and health officials to consider.
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The energetic Andy Edwards has been talking this week with Dave McGillivray, the race director of the Boston Marathon. The world’s oldest annual marathon, first run in 1897, is usually held in April, but this year it’s scheduled for October 11 because of the global coronavirus pandemic. But that date is contingent on big road races with tens of thousands of runners being allowed as part of the reopening plan in the northeast U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Due to frigid weather reports, which proved to be spot on, there was no Kids K and no 5-mile race in Andover Thanksgiving Day morning.
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There have been two memorable engagements among the Feaster Five faithful over the years.
Race director Dave McGillivray proposed to wife, Katie, back in 2002, while up on a huge crane at Brickstone Plaza. She said yes and the rest is history.
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With extreme cold predicted for Thursday, the Feaster Five Thanksgiving road race will now include only the 5K run.
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The city is buzzing ahead of the 2018 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 16.
Marathon weekend is an electric time to be in the city as people travel from around the world to lace up their sneakers to participate in a Boston race.
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Amid your rhythmic footfalls, Falmouth Road Race landmarks come and go. The Nobska lighthouse. The flat miles along the Vineyard Sound. The loop around the inner harbor. You check your watch at each mile marker. Right on pace. As the beachside finish nears, the crowds grow larger and louder. You sprint beneath a giant American flag, cross the line 150 yards later, and find a bank of photographers clicking away. Then, with the satisfaction of a race well run, you step off your treadmill.
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Undaunted by tight security and gray skies that opened up to dump chilly rain, spectators lined the route of the 119th Boston Marathon Monday, cheering themselves hoarse as legions of runners sped by, led by the fleet-footed elite.
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Monday’s weather forecast likely will make for a Tale of Two Races — one for the elite runners who’ll be finishing around noon and another for the five-hour bunch who’ll arrive on Boylston Street after 4 p.m. The former group should remain dry. The latter will be dealing with rain and an easterly wind around 20 miles an hour.
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HOPKINTON — When the sun rose on Hopkinton Town Common Monday morning, workers already were swarming across the green in preparation for the start of the Boston Marathon. Officials directed orange-jacketed volunteers, who moved barriers alongside the road and set up bags to collect runners’ extra clothes. Later, the volunteers formed a line across the road to hold the runners in check until the starting gun.
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Forty years ago, Bob Hall, a 23-year-old native of Belmont, won the inaugural wheelchair race of the Boston Marathon. He crossed the Boylston Street finish line in 2 hours 58 minutes in a chair that, in comparison with today’s modern race chairs, seemed to have been liberated from a hospital emergency room.
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Looking for a fast Boston Marathon qualifying time? Here’s some advice: Train hard and take up residence in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, New York, Kentucky, or Iowa. Of all the places with more than 100 qualifiers for the 2015 Boston Marathon, those locations produced the fastest times. D.C. led the pack with an average qualifying time of 3 hours 16 minutes 3 seconds. Massachusetts took first state honors with an average of 3:19:06.
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Dave McGillivray has one of the hardest jobs in the racing industry: getting over 20,000 runners safely from Hopkinton to Boston on the third Monday of every April. The 58-year-old McGillivray, who founded DMSE (Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises) in 1981, has served as the Boston Marathon’s race director since 1988.
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Ethos, a mass participation event organization created to bring athletes together through challenging and unique sporting events, has selected Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises, also known as DMSE Sports, a leader in sports event management, to produce two new multi-sport races.
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Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray says race officials are ready for the high heat expected for today's race. Lara Salahi reports live from the race start in Hopkinton.
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If you were the man responsible for nearly every detail of the world's most famous marathon, what would you do when the race is over? If you're Dave McGillivray, you'd go run 26.2 miles.
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Mbarak Hussein hopes to complete well into his 50s and 60s, inspiring younger runners the way older runners motivate him. Chris Kimbrough simply hopes to compete more frequently. Hussein and Kimbrough were the overall winners of the inaugural Fit to Run Fit to Dream 8-kilometer race, USA Track and Field's national championship for Master's Class runners age 40 and above.
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