THE BOSTON GLOBE
Amid growing concerns about high temperatures on race day, the Boston Athletic Association announced a deferment option for this year’s Boston Marathon and plans to keep the course open an extra hour. Many runners learned of the changes from updates posted at the number pick-up area at the John Hancock Sports & Fitness Expo Saturday morning.
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CAPE COD TIMES
There are, according to film and television lore, “Eight million stories in the Naked City.”
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
As race day approaches, marathon runners do two things: taper training and check weather predictions. Nothing slows runners more than extreme weather conditions. And nothing presents a greater race-day risk than high temperatures. With forecasts predicting 80-plus-degree weather on Patriots Day, Boston Marathon runners, race organizers, and medical personnel are preparing for worst-case scenarios.
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BOSTON HERALD
Anyone who doubted Dave McGillivray’s love for running should have been standing at the traffic signal adjacent to Wellesley Town Hall some 35 years ago, watching the Medford native compete in the now-defunct Silver Lake (Half) Marathon, a race which traversed much of the same layout as the Boston Marathon.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
With Geoffrey Mutai’s world best of 2 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds in the 2011 Boston Marathon and Patrick Makau’s world record of 2:03:38 in the 2011 Berlin Marathon, men’s distance running suddenly seems a place of limitless possibilities. Or, at least, a place where a sub-2 hour marathon is entirely possible.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Trading the lead on Boylston Street in last year’s Boston Marathon, Kenyan Caroline Kilel and American Desiree Davila provided a perfect image for women’s distance running. They raced to the finish in full view of cheering spectators and television cameras. They showcased competition in its purest form. They were not flanked or obscured by male pacesetters. As fans crowded along the homestretch, distance-running aficionados and officials delighted in the duel.
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RUNNER'S WORLD
If you were the man responsible for nearly every detail of the world's most famous marathon, what would you do when the race is over? If you're Dave McGillivray, you'd go run 26.2 miles.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
The Boston Marathon is a great motivator. As roughly 27,000 runners cross the finish line April 16, thousands on the sidelines will be inspired. Maybe a marathon goes on the bucket list, but a shorter race may seem a more realistic first step. New England boasts a calendar packed with spring, summer, and fall road races of all distances.
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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
At the beginning of Dave McGillivray's presentation to a group of runners last weekend, he asked Christine Rentsch, who will be running her first marathon in the Pittsburgh Marathon in May, to leave the room for a few seconds.
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ADVENTURES BY DADDY
As the weeks roll by in our marathon training, we all hit points where we need a lift, could use extra motivation, or some encouragement. On Friday, February 10, the Pittsburgh Marathon will provide just that inspiration when they bring Dave McGillivray, race director for the BAA Boston Marathon, to town to meet with local race participants.
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RUNRUNLIVE PODCAST
Hello and welcome to the Running Phoenix Podcast where we rise like a mystical magic fire bird from the ashes of our injuries to once again triumph! Like the phoenix I have immolated myself on the pyre of training but have emerged reborn to continue my next 1,000 year cycle.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
Bill Rodgers will be there. So, too, will Joan Benoit Samuelson.
And they’ll be joined by 9,998 other not-so-famous runners in Andover on Thanksgiving Day morning for the Feaster Five, which, from its humble beginning in 1988, when approximately 300 toed the starting line, has grown to be the biggest 5K and 5-mile road race in New England.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
The official results are in for the 2012 Boston Marathon, at least the rolling registration results for qualifiers.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
DULUTH, Minn. — Wearing plastic trash bags as temporary raincoats, runners headed toward the Grandma’s Marathon starting line in a light mist. Temperatures hovered slightly above 40 degrees, and a light but steady breeze blew through the crowd of 6,000-plus.
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RUNNER’S WORLD
For more than 30 years, our sport has played a vital role battling the deadly disease.
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DAILY PRESS
Mbarak Hussein hopes to complete well into his 50s and 60s, inspiring younger runners the way older runners motivate him. Chris Kimbrough simply hopes to compete more frequently. Hussein and Kimbrough were the overall winners of the inaugural Fit to Run Fit to Dream 8-kilometer race, USA Track and Field's national championship for Master's Class runners age 40 and above.
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DAILY PRESS
The inaugural 8K race is part of a weekend that includes the Run For the Dream Half-Marathon. The two races begin in Colonial Williamsburg and end at William and Mary's Zable Stadium and wind through the streets of Williamsburg.
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BOSTON GLOBE
The Boston Marathon race director, Dave McGillivray, makes it a point to run the entire course, long after the trumpets have faded.
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