Episode 252: Boston Marathon Race Director, Philanthropist, & Endurance Athlete - Dave McGillivray
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Dave is the RD of one of the biggest races in the World, the Boston Marathon. He is a philanthropist with numerous endurance feats to his name; including single and multi-day ultramarathons.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
| 0:12.5 | Thank you for tuning in for episode 252 of HBO. For this episode, I spoke with Dave McGillivray. |
| 0:23.5 | Dave is interesting to me for a number of reasons. |
| 0:28.4 | He is the race director of one of the most popular and competitive marathons in the world, |
| 0:34.5 | the Boston Marathon. He is a philanthropist who has used endurance sports, including ultra-marathon running, to raise funds for charity, he has made an enormous impact on the Jimmy Fund, |
| 0:40.2 | which raises money to help cancer patients. |
| 0:42.9 | You don't have to be a runner or a humanitarian to be inspired by Dave. |
| 0:46.4 | He shines a bright light on hard work and determination |
| 0:49.5 | and will make you reimagine your own capabilities. |
| 0:52.2 | I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dave. |
| 0:55.0 | If you enjoy this podcast, please consider supporting the show. If you wish to support |
| 0:59.3 | monetarily, you can find links to my Patreon page or PayPal link on my website, |
| 1:04.5 | Zachbetter.com forward slash HPO, or in the links in the show notes. If you wish to support |
| 1:10.3 | the show non-monetarily, liking, sharing, and subscribing to this show |
| 1:14.4 | on your favorite podcast platform and YouTube goes a very long way. |
| 1:19.8 | Hey, thank you for the show. |
| 1:21.4 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:23.1 | And especially speaking to somebody who may not think I'm 10 cents short of a dime or I'm not the shopper's |
| 1:31.5 | knife in the drawer with all these crazy endurance things, but you can identify with them. |
| 1:37.9 | So it's a pleasure to be on with you, Zach. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, you know, it is always funny, Dave, when people, they always want to know kind of like, |
| 1:45.9 | well, what's, they're nice about it usually, right? Like, they want to know, like, why you do what you |
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