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As the 122nd Boston Marathon gets underway on Monday, there will be something different about the start of the race.
That's because after 36 years, Jack LeDuc has officially retired from his yearly tradition of painting the marathon's iconic starting line.
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On Monday morning, April 16, the alarms will sound well before sunrise, as early as 3 a.m. for many, an absurd cushion considering the mid-morning start time. But runners are nothing if not an anxious and peculiar lot.
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Are you preparing to compete in your first Boston Marathon? Are you a veteran of the course, hoping for a personal best? Or do you aspire to one day snag an elusive BQ? If you answered yes to any of the above, then we implore you to keep reading.
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As we head into the final weeks before the Boston Marathon Mark speaks with Dave McGillivray, the race director for this iconic event. Then John Stanton shares his memories of Terry Fox as an incredible athlete along with details on an event that commemorates the anniversary of the Marathon of Hope. Plus a Yukon-based writer shares the lessons she learned after her participation in the Yukon Arctic Ultra was cut short.
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HOPKINTON — For the first time in 37 years, Jacques LeDuc will not tie up traffic a few days before the Boston Marathon to paint the famous starting line. At 67, he has decided to retire.
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Dave McGillivray has directed several hundred road races, including the granddaddy of them all, the Boston Marathon.
But when it comes to running and health, McGillivray has a soft spot ... for kids he'll never meet.
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How many laps around the warning track at Fenway Park would it take to cover 26.2 miles? The answer: 116.5. The reason we know is the first ever marathon inside a MLB ballpark was held at the iconic ballpark on Friday.
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Longtime Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray’s wish finally came true on Friday night. Fenway Park hosted a marathon.
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The closest Dave McGillivray came to running a marathon inside Fenway Park was during a 1978 continental U.S. race where he crossed the finish line inside the home of the Boston Red Sox.
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50 runners are taking 116 laps around the field to complete a marathon. Those runners raised more than $350,000 dollars for youth programming and cancer research through the Red Sox Foundation.
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Fenway Park has seen its share of runs over the years — but none quite like this.
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Danny Shea has always loved the Red Sox.
His childhood was so filled with memories of trips to Fenway Park that the team has always sort of felt like a member of his family. His love of running is more recent.
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After speaking during Friday morning’s Falmouth Road Race press conference, Stephen Sambu and several of the runners in attendance wanted to get some fresh air.
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There will be something waiting for every runner who completes the New Balance Falmouth Road Race on Sunday.
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Krige Schabort of Rome, Georgia, won the men’s wheelchair race Saturday at the 20th TD Beach to Beacon 10K in one of the event’s largest fields.
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Photo caption: More than 35 Boston media and sports celebrities participated in the DMSE Sports Classic Celebrity Mile sponsored by Fuddruckers at Merrimack College recently. Funds raised from the weekend-long event supported a dozen local charities. Pictured, from left: Dave McGillivray, founder, DMSE Sports Classic; Brigid Geoffrion Scannell of Fuddruckers; Lisa Hughes, anchor, WBZ-TV; and Haley Jane Davies of Fuddruckers.
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Shorthand for the TD Beach to Beacon 10K is often written as B2B.
It’s fitting, because at the heart of the race is another 2, a dynamic duo in the middle of this annual celebration of running by the sea – race founder Joan Benoit Samuelson and race director Dave McGillivray. They’ve been working together since the road race debuted in 1998.
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