Gentle Giant Moving Company, Inc. is a national moving company based in Somerville, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1980 by Larry O'Toole. In its almost 30-year existence, it has expanded from a single truck business in Massachusetts to opening offices across the United States, including New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, Washington state, and its newest office in San Francisco, California under the name Great Giant. The company won the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award in 2002. On July 1, 2008, Gentle Giant announced its further expansion by purchasing the Seattle-based residential moving company TempStore Moving Company.
The Seattle Marathon is an annual marathon held in Seattle, Washington on the last Sunday in November. Currently sponsored by Amica Insurance , the marathon was established in 1970 when a group of 38 runners attempted to run the 42.195-kilometre challenge. Thirty-one of them managed to finish.