WBUR
Dave McGillivray, the race director of the Boston Marathon, joined Morning Edition Monday to talk about the 125th marathon.
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BOSTON HERALD
The 125th running of the BAA Marathon features a remarkably strong field despite the unusual circumstance of running a springtime race in October.
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TORONTO STAR
7:30 a.m.: Fast-moving, light rain and weather in the 50s greeted the runners gearing up for the Boston Marathon, which is happening Monday for the first time since the pandemic began.
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NBC10 BOSTON
Dave McGillivray, the B.A.A.’s race director is running his 49th consecutive race after undergoing open-heart triple bypass surgery earlier this year.
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WBZ NEWSRADIO 1030
After the pandemic canceled the race in 2020 and pushed back the 2021 running of the Boston Marathon, this year's event is making COVID its top priority.
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HOKA AND IRONMAN BEYOND PODCAST
“As a young boy, I wanted to be one thing only—a professional athlete. What I was learning at that young age is the concept of rejection, that no one wanted me. It’s the worse feeling in the world so I started to run, because no one can cut you from running,” says Dave McGillivray, in a conversation with Eric Gilsenan on the Beyond Podcast.
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VOICE OF AMERICA
The Boston Marathon on Monday, October 11. During Thursday's show, "The Energetic" Andy Edwards will chat with Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray about the historic course.
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WICKED LOCAL
In June of 1894, the French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin established the International Olympic Committee, which organized the first Olympic Games in modern history that was held in Athens in April of 1896.
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TRIATHLETE MAGAZINE
Let’s start with the obvious: Since I wrote the coffee table books to celebrate the 25th, 30th, and 40th anniversary of the Ironman World Championship, I love the history, traditions, and legends of what I consider the most important one-day endurance event on the planet. In my opinion, a huge part of what makes the Ironman World Championship so damn special is the Big Island of Hawaii itself.
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CBS BOSTON
Next month’s Boston Marathon will be the first since the race lost one of its icons, Dick Hoyt.
For decades, Dick and his son, Rick encouraged runners and did a lot to support the YMCA. On Thursday, the MetroWest YMCA honored Dick and Rick with a signed lithograph that will forever hang at its entrance with the words Dick lived by “Yes, you can!”
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MARATHON TRAINING ACADEMY
In this podcast episode, we speak with Dave McGillivray the longtime race director at the Boston Marathon. Always picked last for sports due to being short, Dave found running at an early age. He first attempted the Boston Marathon at 17.
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ALI ON THE RUN SHOW
“We all have something in common. You know what it is? We woke up this morning. Not everyone else did. There’s the best reason to go for a run.”
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MSN
The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is coming up, and former flight attendant Paul “Paulie” Veneto is embarking on the mission of a lifetime to honor the flight crew who were killed on that day, many of whom were Veneto’s close friends and co-workers.
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WE ARE THE MIGHTY
On the left side of Paulie Veneto’s shorts is an American flag. He pins it there every morning after getting dressed, prepping to push an airline beverage cart from Boston to Ground Zero, a 220-mile journey.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
DMSE Sports, which has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass-participatory events over the past 40 years, will be back at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place to manage the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K and at Fenway Park for the Run to Home Base.
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RUNNING USA
Boston — DMSE Sports, which has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass-participatory events over the past 40 years, will be back at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place to manage the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K and at Fenway Park for the Run to Home Base. This is a change of mission at these sites for the event management team—they spent the first six months of 2021 at these facilities, leading the operations and logistics for administering 1.3 million vaccination shots.
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WHCO-AM
A retired Boston United Airlines flight attendant is planning to walk all the way from Logan Airport to New York City while pushing a beverage cart in honor of flight crews who were killed on 9/11, including those he knew personally.
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CBS BOSTON
Rain or shine, Paul Veneto is on his way to New York City, pushing an airline beverage cart in honor of the flight crews who died on 9/11, many of whom he knew personally.
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BOSTON HERALD
People have said “Never forget” about the Sept. 11 attacks for many years — but Paulie Veneto wants to spotlight a group who he felt didn’t get remembered well enough in the first place.
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