Former Race Director Dave McGillivray | BAA President & CEO Jack Fleming - 4/20 (Hour 2)
Toucher & Hardy
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4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) Former Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray joins the show!
(10:48.525) More takeaways from last night’s Bruins loss.
(29:59.016) Jack Fleming, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Athletic Association, joins the show!
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| 0:37.0 | No idea what you're talking about. Here's more of the thing on the sports hub. It is toucher and Hardy live from Marathon Monday at the starting line at Hopkinson, presented by your local Honda dealers. Matt McCarthy, Dan Roach, in for the guys today. Dan, I don't know if you'd notice this. We have active race directing going on here in the |
| 0:56.3 | studio. That's what he does. That's the man of, you've known Dave for a long time. How long have I |
| 1:01.5 | known you, Dave? Well, since the kids were, yeah, little kids. Yeah. So at least 25 years. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. Yeah. So he's the best at what he does. |
| 1:11.1 | Dave, it's a pleasure. |
| 2:01.0 | I'm really glad you were able to join us. Dan, when do you let everybody know about Dave, Dave's background? Dave McGilvray, is that correct? Dave McGilvery is a race director. He's, he's, Mr. Boston Marathon, getting everybody being in order. he's the best If you want to have a road race of any distance, half a mile to 25, 26.2, it's Dave McGilvery. Even further than that. He's got one coming up at Fenway, where you run in the warning track and everything else, right? When's that, Dave? May 30th. Yeah, and people get involved in that. You've got your foundation, too. We've read books on running. It's everything about running. This is the guy to do it. We're ready to go for today, Dave? Yeah, it looks like Mother Nature is cooperating, a little chilly out here in Huffington right now. But as the sun comes up and the day gets longer, it'll get a little, and it'll be perfect running weather for all the runners. |
| 2:03.1 | You've been at this a long time, haven't you? |
| 2:03.9 | A long time. |
| 2:12.7 | I started running in the race itself in 1973, and then 1988 was hired to help direct the race. |
| 2:25.6 | And so I wanted to continue my streak of running, so I directed during the day and then came back out here in Hopkington at night and ran it was the last finisher for 36 years in a row. |
| 2:29.8 | And then two years ago, my daughter, Ellie, wanted to run. |
| 2:32.2 | So I helped get everyone started. |
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