INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORT COMMUNICATION, 9(1), 36-41
Dave McGillivray directs the world’s oldest marathon, which attracts over 500,000 spectators each year. The Boston Marathon is New England’s most widely viewed sporting event and is ranked as one of the world’s best known road-racing events.
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He has run 144 marathons, logged 150,000 miles in running shoes, and has competed in nine Ironman triathlons. At 62, Dave McGillivray also has been race director of the Boston Marathon for 29 years and is owner of DMSE Sports Inc., a firm that manages sports events and charity races across the country, from the Falmouth Road Race to the Walk for Hunger.
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As each of the 157 members of the Nashoba Valley Technical High School Class of 2016 accepted his or her diploma, each completed a type of marathon. Instead of 26.2 miles, it was four years of studying for tests in academics while striving to get a leg up on their counterparts by mastering a technical program and opening a career pathway.
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At the 2016 Running USA Industry Conference in Los Angeles, Events.com caught up with Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray of DMSE.
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Episode 3: Dave McGillivray’s amazing running life; how mere mortals can break world records; a recap of the Boston Marathon.
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Since the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon, the event has come to represent the city's resilience. What's changed in the wake of more recent terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and San Bernardino?
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Breakfast with Bob Boston Edition presented by Hyland's with NormaTec filmed on location at the Boston Marathon Expo. Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray is the heart and soul of the marathon. We were joined by Mike Ehredt who told us about the epic runs he has completed to honor fallen soldiers.
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Former Patriots lineman Matt Light was on hand to help introduce three runners who’ll be raising money for The Light Foundation at next month’s Boston Marathon. Gregg Huffman, Lauren McCarthy, and Kevin Connell, dubbed team Speed of Light, were introduced the other night at a fund-raiser at Harpoon Brewery. Dave McGillivray, the BAA’s marathon race director, was there, as was pigskin pundit Peter King, who talked all things NFL with guests.
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Endurance Sportswire recently had the opportunity to co-produce some video-taped interviews with Bob Babbitt (www.Babbittville.com) at the Triathlon Business International Conference.
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Dave McGillivray is a runner, race director, entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, and athlete. In 1978, he ran across the United States, over 3400 miles, ending at Fenway Park in order to raise money for the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and he repeated this run in 2004 raising $300,000 for charities benefiting children.
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Back in 1973, while still in college, Dave McGillivray organized a 2.5-mile running race between two parks in Medford, Mass., and something inside of him clicked. It was a tiny event, but it was the dawn of the running boom, and he sensed recreational running was going to grow for years to come.
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As the Boston Marathon race director since the 1980s, Dave McGillivray has put a powerful microscope on motivation.
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Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray tells how his life experiences led to becoming a road race organizer.
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The Louisiana Marathon announces Dave McGillivray, Boston Marathon Race Director, Motivational Speaker, World-Class Athlete and Accomplished Entrepreneur as the keynote speaker of the popular Pastalaya Dinner on Saturday, January 17, 2015. Also in attendance and opening the presentation for Mr. McGillivray will be Major Kim “Rooster” Rossiter, USMC and founder of Ainsley’s Angel’s of America.
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The first class to graduate under the shade of a huge tent overlooking our lovely waterfront, as well as the beneficiaries of a last lecture from retiring faculty member Bruce Cobbold for Baccalaureate, and a rousing Commencement Address by Dave McGillivray, Race Director of the Boston Marathon, the Class of 2014 went out in fine fashion.
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Arguably no one knows the Boston Marathon route better than the man who has directed the race for over 25 years and also ran the marathon 42 times--in a row. Ashley Davis sits down one-on-one with Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray to talk about the uniqueness of the 2014 marathon, the road to recovery from 2013 and Dave's special connection to one of the families affected by the marathon bombings.
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Dave McGillivray is Race Director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and has been since 1988.
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MARION — Dave McGillivray told Tabor Academy’s Class of 2014 that when he first ran the Boston Marathon, at age 17, he quit after seven miles. He returned the following year only to stop again after several miles.
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