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Dave McGillivray: How to Get the City Behind Your New Race
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About Dave McGillivray
Dave McGillivray is the founder of DMSE Sports, managing more than 30 major road races and charitable events per year, including working with the B.A.A. Operations Team to manage all the logistics of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon.
On September 15th, McGillivray is directing the Fenway Park Marathon! This charity race will be held within Fenway Park and will benefit the Boston Red Sox Foundation. Check it out here!
We sat down with Dave McGillivray, the 29-year race director of the Boston Marathon, and he shared his top tips for getting the city behind your new race.
In this guide, McGillivray stresses that relationships are the key to earning support for your event. He discusses these relationships at three different touch points: the race locale, the race's governing body, and of course, the people.