AUDIO: Dave McGillivray

HOKA AND IRONMAN BEYOND PODCAST

“As a young boy, I wanted to be one thing only—a professional athlete. What I was learning at that young age is the concept of rejection, that no one wanted me. It’s the worse feeling in the world so I started to run, because no one can cut you from running,” says Dave McGillivray, in a conversation with Eric Gilsenan on the Beyond Podcast.

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COMMENTARY: IMWC, DON'T LEAVE!

TRIATHLETE MAGAZINE

Let’s start with the obvious: Since I wrote the coffee table books to celebrate the 25th, 30th, and 40th anniversary of the Ironman World Championship, I love the history, traditions, and legends of what I consider the most important one-day endurance event on the planet. In my opinion, a huge part of what makes the Ironman World Championship so damn special is the Big Island of Hawaii itself.

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VIDEO: METROWEST YMCA HONORS BOSTON MARATHON ICONS DICK AND RICK HOYT

CBS BOSTON

Next month’s Boston Marathon will be the first since the race lost one of its icons, Dick Hoyt.

For decades, Dick and his son, Rick encouraged runners and did a lot to support the YMCA. On Thursday, the MetroWest YMCA honored Dick and Rick with a signed lithograph that will forever hang at its entrance with the words Dick lived by “Yes, you can!”

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AFTER LEADING THE OPERATIONS FOR MASSACHUSETTS MASS-VACCINATION EFFORTS, DMSE SPORTS WILL RETURN TO GILLETTE STADIUM AND FENWAY PARK TO DIRECT ROAD RACES

RUNNING USA

Boston — DMSE Sports, which has managed and produced more than 1,400 mass-participatory events over the past 40 years, will be back at Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place to manage the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K and at Fenway Park for the Run to Home Base. This is a change of mission at these sites for the event management team—they spent the first six months of 2021 at these facilities, leading the operations and logistics for administering 1.3 million vaccination shots.

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20 YEAR OF 9/11: MAN TO WALK FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK TO HONOR VICTIMS OF TERRORIST ATTACK

THE SAXON

Paul Veneto, a former flight attendant who lost several colleagues when the United Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, will honor his friends and colleagues on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks by pushing an airline beverage cart from Boston to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan this month.

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