D
ave McGillivray has experienced and witnessed much
in his career in the running business, as an athlete,
race director, entrepreneur, fund raiser and motivator.
The highs have been many, including his 1978, nearly
3,500-mile run across the U.S. in 80 days to raise
money for the Jimmy Fund as well as his his race
director leadership over the 100th running of the
Boston Marathon in 1996. Seventeen years later, he was
again in Boston when the finish line bombings altered the playbook
on race security forever.
Throughout it all, the owner and president of Dave McGillivray
Sports Enterprises, Inc. for more than 35 years, where he has
produced or consulted on nearly 1,000 mass-participatory athletic
events on the national and international stages, has never lost sight
of his philosophy: "When you give of yourself, you receive even
more in return."
Now 63, McGillivray, who has completed 145 marathons
including the last 44 in Boston, recently sat down with Formula4
Media's Bob McGee to discuss marathon participation, the future of
event marketing, his most recent race venture which may be coming
to a Major League Baseball park near you soon, and his impressions
of the recent Hollywood movies that depicted the people and events
around that fateful April 2013 day in Boston. n
Listen to Sports Insight Extra's "Inside the Lab" podcast with
Dave McGillivray here: sportsinsightextra.com/podcast.html
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A Half-Century in The Running Game
Long-Time
Boston Marathon
Race Director
Weighs In.
Listen to Sports Insight Extra's "Inside the Lab" podcast with
Dave McGillivray here: sportsinsightextra.com/podcast.html
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