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About 7,000 runners braved the frigid temperatures Thanksgiving Day morning to run the annual Feaster Five Road Race in Andover.
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About 7,000 runners braved the frigid temperatures Thanksgiving Day morning to run the annual Feaster Five Road Race in Andover.
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With extreme cold predicted for Thursday, the Feaster Five Thanksgiving road race will now include only the 5K run.
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Runners around the world were shocked to see Dave McGillivray, race director of the Boston Marathon, sporting a hospital gown and walker in a tweet yesterday. McGillivray underwent triple bypass surgery last Friday at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Friday morning, Boston Marathon race-director and uber-endurance and charity runner Dave McGillivray will undergo open-heart surgery. Please join us in wishing him well. We fully expect to see him back to his usual tricks in Hopkinton and Boston next April.
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Dave McGillivray, arguably one of the most fit people on the planet, has coronary artery disease and is preparing to undergo triple bypass surgery as Mass General Hospital. WBZ-TV's Lisa Hughes reports.
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A sea of red shirts filled The Park in Andover Sunday morning as hundreds of walkers gathered for the 19th annual Hike for Hope.
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While we tend to obsess over preventing injuries and maintaining strong bones and muscles, most runners don’t pay much mind to their heart health. After all, a solid amount of physical activity is a known preventive tool for keeping your ticker in top shape.
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Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray was at home resting last night after undergoing his third angiogram in the past five years earlier in the day at Mass. General Hospital.
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A day of celebration marking the 40th anniversary of Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray’s historic solo 3,452-mile run across the U.S. included the unveiling of a commemorative stone plaque outside Medford City Hall and the re-creation of his Fenway Park finish, again to a standing ovation from Red Sox fans.
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Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray ran across the country in 1978. He told WBZ's Lisa Hughes about the one personal strategy he's used for 40 years to reach his goals.
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Dave McGillivray got to relive one of the greatest moments of his life at Fenway Park Thursday. He took a victory lap around the field before the Red Sox-Indians game, marking the 40th anniversary of his 1978 “Run Across America,” what Runner’s World magazine called “the first cancer-fund-raising run.”
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You likely remember the part of "Forest Gump" where the titular character ran across the United States just because he felt like it. It seems rather insane, like most of the things Tom Hanks' character was able to accomplish throughout that film.
But in reality, many people have actually accomplished the cross-country jog. One of the first to complete the feat was Boston's Dave McGillivray, who needed 80 days to run 3,452 miles from Oregon to Boston -- an average of 45 miles per day. On the final leg of his run in 1978, McGillivray ran through one of the garage doors in the outfield of Fenway Park and took a few laps around the stadium as the crowd roared.
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Before there was "Forrest Gump," there was Dave McGillivray.
Gump, the fictitious simpleton played by Tom Hanks in the 1994 Oscar-winning film, trotted across the U.S. because he "just felt like running."
McGillivray did the same, but with a singular purpose: Forty years ago this month, he completed his own cross-country running odyssey from Medford, Oregon, to his hometown of Medford, Massachusetts, to benefit the Jimmy Fund and its fight against cancer.
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For those Red Sox fans who can’t shake the old habit of constantly looking for bad omens, dark clouds and other harbingers of impending doom, we have some distressing news for you.
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A pre-run celebration for Dave McGillivray at Medford City Hall before his run from Medford City Hall to Fenway Park to commemorate his 40th Anniversary of running from Medford, Oregon to Medford, MA to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018.
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Dave McGillivray could write a book about his 3,452-mile journey from Medford, Oregon, to Medford, Massachusetts.
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