THE BOSTON GLOBE
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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Anybody that knows or has heard of Dave McGillivray understands that each year brings on new challenges.
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BURLINGTON — The 14th annual Lahey Health 5K Cancer Walk & Run is expected to be held on Saturday, June 27, at Burlington High School with a start time of 8 a.m.
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FALMOUTH — From the start line next to Captain Kidd in Woods Hole to posters at each mile marker and displays on the bib numbers of each runner, New Balance Falmouth Road Race participants from around the world will be reminded of the event’s founder this weekend.
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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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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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In the weeks leading up to the 2014 Boston Marathon, Dave McGillivray was steeled with certitude and torn with indecision. As race director of the venerable, star-crossed marathon, McGillivray knew what he wanted. As the father of young children, he didn't.
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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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This May, multisport will return to Temecula’s Vail Lake Resort—a privately-owned ranch about 50 miles east of San Diego—which used to host an XTERRA race a few years back. Ethos, one of the newest events companies on the scene, has two weekend-long endurance festivals planned for late May and late September, each accompanied by live music and a unique blend of endurance challenges.
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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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