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Date: Tuesday, July 29
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
Cost: Complimentary
How: Via the Internet

ActiveEndurance is proud to present its Best Practices Web seminar series featuring Dave McGillivray, founder and president of Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises (DMSE), who will discuss the Do's and Don'ts of Race Directing.

DMSE has produced more than 750 mass-participatory athletic events throughout the world. Included in that impressive list are 20 Boston Marathons, for which Dave serves as Race Director. In 2005, Dave was inducted into the Running USA Hall of Fame.

As race directors you must be able to do everything from securing city permits to ordering the porta-toilets. Dave will address and help you stay on top of the "Hot Topics" in today's running event management world.

Topics covered include:

Les Smith has been the Event Director of the Portland Marathon for 27 years. Les claims his longevity and the success of the event are the direct result of the 65-member volunteer Event Committee, who each average 17+ years working on the event. During Les' tenure, the Portland Marathon has grown from 400 participants to nearly 10,000.

Twenty-three years ago, Les created what is now a highly recognized three-day Event Director's College. Held during the three days (October 2-4) before the Portland Marathon, this interactive conference has trained event directors and committee members of large and small events from all over the US. The Conference stresses leadership and explores the critical topics that make running and walking events a success.

This year's Conference will stress the basics of what makes an event grow and flourish both for participants and the community. Topics will include how to create a solid event charity program:

"We again will have top experts and experienced event directors to serve on our College's panels. These include Jeff Galloway, Joe Henderson and Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who has run over 25 Portland Marathons. The Conference is a fun get-together of the best and brightest, as well as a terrific venue in which to network," said Smith.

Les also has trademarked the Portland Marathon's "Plug-in" program, which includes making the event MP3-friendly. He also added to the event's long-term green program. The program, which has given a tree to finishers each year since 1993, will see the planting of the 100,000th tree this year.

"The key is picking good leaders and competent workers and trusting them to perform after you make sure they understand how the event goes together. Long ago the military taught me the leadership skills and why delegation is critical."

Visit the Portland Marathon website

Responsibilities:

I work with Event Directors on the East Coast, offering online registration services for their event(s), marketing tools and services to help them grow and expand their event, and to save them time and hassle by offering efficient data management of their participants.

What I like to do in my spare time:

I love to run and train for races, especially the marathon and half-marathon. I play basketball, hike, do yoga, read, go to the beach and spend time with my friends and family. I am also working towards my Masters Degree in Nutrition.

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