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Boston — Registration is open for the East Coast Run, a virtual team event powered by DMSE Sports that strives to bring together fellow active persons while they’re apart, and to help raise some much-needed funds for YMCA branches along the East Coast.
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Boston — DMSE Sports’ Merry-Thon has kicked off its 26-day streaker challenge of fitness and holiday spirit. The Merry-Thon promises to keep participants moving, even as the weather gets colder, and to spread a bit of holiday joy, even in the midst of a pandemic. For each day over the course of 26 days, participants are asked to complete at least one mile of movement by whatever means the participant chooses, and to complete one act of kindness.
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The Feaster Five Road Race has faced a few hurdles over its three decades. But, in the end, nothing has ever stopped it from happening.
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Bloomberg Baystate Business for Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
- Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray talks about the impact of the pandemic on the road race business with Mike Lynch and the crew from Bloomberg’s “Business of Sports” (1:15:17)
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Each August, in normal times, about 13,000 people run 7 miles up the Massachusetts coastline as part of the Falmouth Road Race. To kick off this year’s event, my wife held a watch in the air and yelled, “Go!” I took off running down a narrow trail where we live—in Munich. I’d always been skeptical of virtual races, which allow runners to participate from afar. Why pay someone a registration fee to run around your own neighborhood?
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FALMOUTH — The enduring legacy of Tommy Leonard and his impact on Falmouth has long been secure: founder of the Falmouth Road Race in 1973; co-founder of the Falmouth Walk in 1991; untold gifts of kindness and charity to the community.
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We asked locals who ran the virtual Boston Marathon over the last few weeks to tell us about their experiences. Here are some of the inspiring stories that are worth telling.
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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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From September 6 to September 14, runners around the world were undertaking their own personal Boston Marathons, as the annual event went virtual for the first time.
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He typically runs the Boston Marathon after everybody else. This year Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillvray ran a loop near his home – over and over again.
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Medford2Medford Virtual Run Across America concluded on Aug. 29 at the steps of the Medford, Massachusetts, City Hall.
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The 124th Boston Marathon finally got underway this weekend, but virtually — meaning runners do the work, and an interactive app augments the experience.
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Forty-two years after his first finish, Dave McGillivray broke through the tape in front of Medford City Hall just after 9 a.m. on Saturday morning after running the last mile of this year’s virtual Medford2Medford run.
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The Medford2Medford: Run Across America was inspired by Dave McGillivray’s epic 1978 run from Medford, OR, to Medford, MA. Medford2Medford, the virtual team running event powered by DMSE Sports that brought fellow runners together while they were apart while helping to raise over $55,000 for 20 local charities concluded a high, emotional note on Saturday, Aug. 29 at the steps of Medford (Ma) City Hall.
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Virtual events, in this day and age, are a little bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s a constant reminder of all our favorite events that have been canceled—some, for the first time in their history, like the Boston Marathon. And on the other hand, the widespread accessibility to the internet has allowed everyone across the world to come together and participate in events they couldn’t have attended in person, like the Head of the Charles Regatta and a vast list of virtual workouts.
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The American Lung Association was recently named a charity partner for the Medford2Medford virtual running event, powered by DMSE Sports.
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Boston – Registration is open for Medford2Medford, a virtual team running event powered by DMSE Sports, that strives to bring fellow runners together while they’re apart and to help raise some much-needed funds for charities. The M2M is modeled after Dave McGillivray’s 1978 run from Medford, OR, to Medford, MA. Over the course of 80 days, McGillivray ran 3,452 miles and raised more than $100,000 for the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based charity that supports the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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The race director for the Boston Marathon said Friday it was not a surprise to hear that this year's event was canceled and will now be going virtual, but he's looking ahead to a new challenge this summer.
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Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D.
That’s the mantra of Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray. Having already faced nearly every possible crisis in the event management business, Dave knows you need to have a back-up plan to your back-up plan in order to have something lined up for nearly every contingency. Yes, nearly every contingency.
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For the first time in a long time, the roads from Hopkinton to Boston were silent on Patriots' Day as the 124th Boston Marathon was postponed to September due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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