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On Monday, one of the running world’s greatest ambassadors will be running the Boston Marathon just six months after having triple bypass surgery. Crazy, you say? Perhaps. But Boston Marathon Race Director, Dave McGillivray, is known for his passion for running. And he wasn’t going to let open heart surgery prevent him from running his 47th consecutive Boston.
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Thousands of people from around the world run the Boston Marathon each year.
But race director Dave McGillivray estimates there’s only a handful of people for whom the race course is as familiar as the back of their hands.
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon's race director says the unthinkable has happened: the rainy, windy and generally miserable conditions from last year's race are returning this year.
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The Boston Athletic Association on Friday announced weather-related changes to Monday’s Boston Marathon schedule to ensure the safety of participants, pushing the Wave 4 start time immediately behind Wave 3 (10:50 a.m.).
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon race director never thought he would see a repeat of the rainy, windy and generally miserable conditions from last year’s race so soon, but it looks as if it’s going to happen.
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BOSTON — It was the death heard ‘round the running world.
In July 1984, acclaimed author and running guru Jim Fixx died of a heart attack while trotting along a country road in Vermont. Overnight, a nascent global movement of asphalt athletes got a gut check: Just because you run marathons doesn’t mean you’re safe from heart problems.
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The heart and soul of the Boston Marathon are the people who run, cheer and volunteer. Race director Dave McGillivray has run Boston 46 times. But this year is different. It’s his first marathon after major surgery. And he’s dedicating it to a special five year-old. Jack Middlemiss is a non-stop inspiration for McGillivray.
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Boston Marathon director Dave McGillivray had open-heart triple bypass surgery just six months ago, but that's not stopping him from running his 47th consecutive marathon in Boston next week.
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BOSTON — Dave McGillivray, race director of the Boston Marathon, plans to run his 47th consecutive Boston Marathon just five months after he underwent major heart surgery.
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BOSTON — Renowned endurance athlete Dave McGillivray will attempt to run the 123rd B.A.A. Boston Marathon just six months after undergoing open-heart, triple-bypass surgery Oct. 12.
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BOSTON – Renowned race director and endurance athlete Dave McGillivray will attempt to run the 123rd B.A.A. Boston Marathon just six months after undergoing open-heart, triple-bypass surgery on October 12, 2018. This will be McGillivray’s 47th consecutive running of the world-famous marathon, of which he is race director. McGillivray will make his attempt after completing his official race day duties.
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I first met Dave in January 2014 at the Walt Disney Marathon Race Expo when he was one of the guest speakers. He was also there to run the Dopey Challenge (5K, 10K, Half and Full in consecutive days). We've kept in touch over the last 5 years and I consider him a friend. When I asked him to do this interview he was more than willing! If I were to sum up one of his great qualities is he is a giver as he is always doing for others.
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John Young is way past the point of people telling him what he isn’t capable of doing.
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Dave McGillivray is one of America’s most honored and respected runners. No flash-in-the-pan success story, he dropped out of his first Boston Marathon as a teenager. But he has since finished 46 in a row, emulating an early hero--”Old John” A. Kelley, who completed 58 Bostons in his illustrious running career.
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PEABODY — Sports tourism could draw thousands of visitors to the North Shore, but that does not mean pros have to be in the game to score an economic lift, members of the tourist industry were told at a Friday summit.
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Dave McGillivray, the race director for the Boston Marathon, will be the guest speaker Saturday at the Twin City Track Club's Winter Seminar in Winston-Salem.
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Tommy Leonard founded the Falmouth Road Race in 1973 on his 40th birthday, and his August classic became a present to generations of runners — from Olympic gold medalists to beginners lucky enough to snag a spot on the starting line.
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Michael Jordan tells a story about not making a high school varsity basketball team. He wasn't tall enough.
Dave McGillivray is like Michael Jordan in that regard, once being cut from a high school basketball team in Medford, Mass. At 5 feet 4, he wasn't tall enough.
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The Boston area lost a longtime stalwart of the city’s running scene last week. Tommy Leonard, a former bartender at the Eliot Lounge at the corner of Commonwealth and Massachusetts and the founder of the Falmouth Road Race, died on January 16 at age 85 after a long illness.
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