PURPOSE2PLAY
As the Boston Marathon race director since the 1980s, Dave McGillivray has put a powerful microscope on motivation.
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COMPETITOR.COM
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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RUNNER'S WORLD
The athletes, execs, inventors, and others who inspire us and enable our modern running lives
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RUNNER'S WORLD
When Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray turned 60 last summer, the legendary father and son racing duo of Dick and Rick Hoyt presented their longtime friend with a unique gift certificate.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
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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HCAM BUSINESS MATTERS
Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray tells how his life experiences led to becoming a road race organizer.
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COMPETITOR.COM
Dave McGillivray has been the Boston Marathon race director since 1988, but he’s also run the course 43 years in a row—including 27 of the last 28 at night long after the rest of the finishers have reached the finish line on Boylston Street.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Monday’s wretched Patriots Day weather – raw, rainy and windy – couldn’t daunt the 27,165 runners who started the 119th Boston Marathon. All but 555 of them crossed the Boylston Street finish line before the timing clock was switched off, a 98 percent completion rate. Of 30,250 registrants, 27,506 picked up their bib numbers and only 341 of them didn’t make it to the Hopkinton starting line. Virtually all of the 9,000 race volunteers turned up and went the distance as well.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Undaunted by tight security and gray skies that opened up to dump chilly rain, spectators lined the route of the 119th Boston Marathon Monday, cheering themselves hoarse as legions of runners sped by, led by the fleet-footed elite.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Monday’s weather forecast likely will make for a Tale of Two Races — one for the elite runners who’ll be finishing around noon and another for the five-hour bunch who’ll arrive on Boylston Street after 4 p.m. The former group should remain dry. The latter will be dealing with rain and an easterly wind around 20 miles an hour.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
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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THE BOSTON GLOBE
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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ESPN
Dave McGillivray knows the Boston Marathon as well as anyone. But even the longtime race director, who’ll facilitate his 28th and run his 43rd Boston in 2015, admits he didn’t know what to expect in 2014.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Looking for a fast Boston Marathon qualifying time? Here’s some advice: Train hard and take up residence in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, New York, Kentucky, or Iowa. Of all the places with more than 100 qualifiers for the 2015 Boston Marathon, those locations produced the fastest times. D.C. led the pack with an average qualifying time of 3 hours 16 minutes 3 seconds. Massachusetts took first state honors with an average of 3:19:06.
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THE BOSTON MARATHON
Right around that fourth snowstorm, with temperatures holding steady below freezing and snow piles showing no sign of receding, officials from Hopkinton to Newton admit, they felt a bit uneasy about being ready for the start of this year’s Boston Marathon.
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COMPETITOR.COM
What can we expect from the 2015 race, now two years removed from the bombings that shocked the world? Race director Dave McGillivray gives some insight on what organizers are doing to prepare for 2015, and what remains uncertain as we approach race day.
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JOHN HANCOCK
BAA Race Director Dave McGillivray not only directs the Boston Marathon, he's also run it every year since he was 18 years old!
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
NEWTON — With the Boston Marathon 46 days away, debris-filled snow banks line the course and cover popular spectator perches. Snow surrounds the famous statue near Heartbreak Hill that depicts two Johnny Kelleys, young and old. One bronze Kelley wears a Superman T-shirt, the other a Batman T-shirt. The costumes seem oddly appropriate. These days, it seems, readying the course for race day may take superhuman efforts.
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RUN TO THE TOP PODCAST
We are very excited to have a special guest to restart the podcast for 2015!
It is hard to know where to start; Dave McGillivray has been the Boston Marathon race director since 1981, but he is also the race director of Beach to Beacon and Falmouth. Some of you may have raced those ones in the past.
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