How You Could Road Raceand WinFrom Your Living Room

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 4:30 p.m.

Dave McGillivray is an improbable advocate of virtual exercise. The race director of the Boston Marathon for 30 years, McGillivray estimates he's logged more than 150,000 miles in his lifetime, the overwhelming majority of them outside, and a formidable number of those in Forrest-Gumpian feats of endurance. In 1978, he ran from Medford, Oregon to Medford, Massachusetts\u2014a distance of 3,452 miles\u2014for charity. In 2004, he did it again.