MARK ALLEN COACHING
If there was ever an athletic event that could have just folded under duress and horrendous circumstances, this was one of them. On race day two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line in 2013. It was a tragedy no one will forget. Sports should be immune from politics and world events, but on that day we were all reminded that it doesn’t.
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The first marathon, in Novo, Antartica, was tough. The second and the third were the same. But by the fourth and fifth, Dave McGillivray’s fatigue was fading and his legs felt firmer beneath him. And in Miami, running his seventh marathon on seven continents in seven days, he felt so good the only thing stopping the 63-year-old from going for eight was that he’d run out of continents.
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One of the world's greatest runners, Meb Keflezighi, is coming to Lee University to run and speak at the 65 Roses 5K Great Strides event in
Read MoreWICKED LOCAL — NORTH ANDOVER
North Andover resident Dave McGillivray, race director of the Boston Marathon and numerous other races throughout the U.S., has been inducted into the Merrimack College Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2017.
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Standing at the finish line of the 1988 Boston Marathon, his first as technical director for the race, Dave McGillivray felt lousy. He had run the race every year for the last 15 years and didn’t want his new position to stand in the way of running it again.
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Joan Benoit Samuelson has been a pioneer in the sport of running and an inspiration in women’s athletics.
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Joan Benoit Samuelson is someone you really can’t say enough good things about. The humble Mainer probably hates the attention and adulation, but come on, she’s an Olympic gold medalist in the most brutal of competitions, the marathon, and now she’s synonymous with a world-class 10K road race.
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The documentary “Boston” captured the history of the Boston Marathon in less than two hours and the director has worked to provide as many factual events as possible.
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Max is from Boston. His parents have run the Boston Marathon. And Max is running the race this year for the first time because he’s “been going since he was born and it’s always been a big part of [his] life.” It’s a classic scenario for those from Beantown, but that’s only part of the story. Max’s parents haven’t just ‘run’ the Marathon. His dad actually runs it.
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Outside Interactive, a Hopkinton, Massachusetts based developer of Virtual Runner™, a race course simulator for treadmill runners, announced today at this year’s annual Running USA Conference that Race Director Dave McGillivray has joined its Board of Advisors.
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With hands in his pockets on a chilly December night, the longtime race director of the Boston Marathon positioned himself outside of the fray and watched as others joined the red carpet festivities for the premiere of Patriots Day, the new major motion picture chronicling the marathon bombings and the manhunt that took over a city in 2013.
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ACTIVE Network, the largest global marketplace for activities and events and the industry’s leading provider of data solutions, today announced that it is teaming up with Dave McGillivray, race director for iconic events and an industry pioneer who has recently received the Marathon Photo / Road Race Management Lifetime Achievement Award for dedication to the endurance industry.
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The last time Dave McGillivray saw Tara Orlowski was the early 1980s when she was undergoing chemotherapy at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and he was completing feats of endurance to raise money for cancer research through the Jimmy Fund.
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NEWTON, Mass. — Newton North senior Nick Norwitz had his heart and mind set on running this year's Boston Marathon for nearly a year.
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Runner’s World hosted a pre-marathon party at Lucca Back Bay Saturday. Guests included (from left) the Boston Athletic Association’s Dave McGillivray, former Marathon champion and Runners World magazine editor at large Amby Burfoot , associate publisher Molly O’Keefe, and editor in chief David Willey.
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After hundreds of runners streamed over the Boston Marathon finish line Sunday evening, the song playing over loudspeakers in Copley Square captured the spirit perfectly: “Happy.”
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It was 7 degrees outside, not counting the wind chill. But as she laced her Sauconys, Jo Lysko, a member of the charity team running to honor Martin Richard, the Dorchester boy killed at last year’s Boston Marathon, refused to complain about the cold, even to herself.
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In the panicked moments after he heard the bombs explode, Cole Keenan saw the plumes of smoke, watched in fear as throngs of spectators began rushing toward him, and worried about his mother, who was running the Marathon and approaching the finish line.
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With Geoffrey Mutai’s world best of 2 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds in the 2011 Boston Marathon and Patrick Makau’s world record of 2:03:38 in the 2011 Berlin Marathon, men’s distance running suddenly seems a place of limitless possibilities. Or, at least, a place where a sub-2 hour marathon is entirely possible.
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