The Somerville meet, at Dilboy Stadium is night one of the adidas Boston Boost meet. This is a fantastic two meet (June 2 and June 4), featuring both old school and new school meetings. The Old School features 800 meters to 5000 meter races, with some of adidas’ finest global athletes and Next Gen athletes, plus top elite runners from around the country.
Getting #Dilboy in #Somerville ready for the big night on Friday! #WhyIRunBoston
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This meet is the work of Global Athletics & Marketing. In their second year with this meet, GAM has put on a the NB Boston Indoor for 23 plus years and put on the NY Diamond league meeting for over a decade. adidas decided that they wanted to shake things up a bit, and Global Athletics pitched adidas on a meet with both stadium and street persona.
June 2016 saw the first adidas Boost Boston meet. Brett Schumacher, the Chief of Operations for Global Athletics spoke to RunBlogRun earlier today. Brett spoke of the 2016 meet and recognized the challenge of laying a track on Charles street in 24 hours. Now, they have one day more! Makes a huge difference.
We look forward to the second year of the adidas Boost Boston Games on June 2 and June 4 and hope to see you there!
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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