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FALMOUTH — Back when the Falmouth Road Race was a year-old toddler, Tommy Leonard vowed that he’d take a swan dive off the Bourne Bridge if the race didn’t attract 500 entrants. “With the way traffic is now, probably a lot of people would have liked to see me do it,” the event’s founder joked during the run-up to the 41st running of what long since has become a supersized summer fixture on the Cape.
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Less than a month after the Boston Marathon bombings, runners are anxious to know how the Boston Athletic Association will deal with the 5,752 participants who didn’t finish this year’s race.
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B.A.A. Executive Director Tom Grilk and Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray appear on video (16 minutes in length) to express gratitude for the support shown to the organization and race over the last two weeks, and they also address issues relating to the 2013 and 2014 Boston Marathon.
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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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The organizers had been through this five years ago, when a nasty nor’easter brought wind and rain that might have sent Captain Ahab below decks.
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The day is here for the 116th running of the Boston Marathon. With temperatures soaring into the 80s, officials strongly urged runners to take extreme caution today. The Boston Globe will provide updates from the race on this page throughout the day.
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Running a marathon is a humbling experience.
There is the delirium that comes from hitting the wall. There are the cramps that will not vanish, the blistered feet that sting with every footfall, the depleted quads that plead for a chair. There is the realization that you are not as fit as you had hoped.
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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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Amid growing concerns about high temperatures on race day, the Boston Athletic Association announced a deferment option for this year’s Boston Marathon and plans to keep the course open an extra hour. Many runners learned of the changes from updates posted at the number pick-up area at the John Hancock Sports & Fitness Expo Saturday morning.
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There are, according to film and television lore, “Eight million stories in the Naked City.”
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As race day approaches, marathon runners do two things: taper training and check weather predictions. Nothing slows runners more than extreme weather conditions. And nothing presents a greater race-day risk than high temperatures. With forecasts predicting 80-plus-degree weather on Patriots Day, Boston Marathon runners, race organizers, and medical personnel are preparing for worst-case scenarios.
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Trading the lead on Boylston Street in last year’s Boston Marathon, Kenyan Caroline Kilel and American Desiree Davila provided a perfect image for women’s distance running. They raced to the finish in full view of cheering spectators and television cameras. They showcased competition in its purest form. They were not flanked or obscured by male pacesetters. As fans crowded along the homestretch, distance-running aficionados and officials delighted in the duel.
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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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Bill Rodgers will be there. So, too, will Joan Benoit Samuelson.
And they’ll be joined by 9,998 other not-so-famous runners in Andover on Thanksgiving Day morning for the Feaster Five, which, from its humble beginning in 1988, when approximately 300 toed the starting line, has grown to be the biggest 5K and 5-mile road race in New England.
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The official results are in for the 2012 Boston Marathon, at least the rolling registration results for qualifiers.
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DULUTH, Minn. — Wearing plastic trash bags as temporary raincoats, runners headed toward the Grandma’s Marathon starting line in a light mist. Temperatures hovered slightly above 40 degrees, and a light but steady breeze blew through the crowd of 6,000-plus.
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