DAVE MCGILLIVRAY’S
“My friend Sean Ryan presented me with a poster of my grandfather as we were passing by the Evergreen Cemetery where he is buried. It was 51 years ago that I dropped out of the race near this spot. That’s when I vowed to come back and do it again and for the rest of my life.
50TH BOSTON MA O n April 18, Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray added to his list of lifetime achievements by running his 50th Boston Marathon. It was his 35th night run after becoming part of the event’s production team in 1988.
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“It’s hard to put it into words” what it means to have run the event for a half century, he told reporters. But through that time, and especially since the bombing of the marathon in 2013, Dave McGillivray has become a hero to many fellow race directors around the world.
