2019 RBR Podcast, Part 2: Meeting Indoor Madrid: the Two Finest moments in Madrid!

Anzelika Siderova, photo by PhotoRun.net

The Meeting Indoor Madrid in 2019 has been the most exciting meet of the season. Mike Rodgers told me after the meet that Madrid was much more exciting than 2018 version.

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Why?

Well, the crowd was into it. The announcers were keeping the meet light and taking the focus from event to event. The 60m sprints and 60m hurdles had the crowd pumped. The middle distance races had some fine Spanish athletes busting their butts to get the European standards.

The two finest events were the Women’s Triple Jump and Women’s Pole Vault.

Yoland Rojas took the WL to 14.92m, just within a short distance of the 15 meter mark. In second, Tori Franklin leaped 14.57m on her second attempt, setting the American record, inside and out, showing that Franklin has the talent to get that 15 meter mark.

Tori Franklin, photo by PhotoRun.net

In the pole vault, Anzelhika Siderova is rounding into shape, and her 4.86m, then, 4.91m, took the WL and showed her emerging presence for the 2019 European Indoor Championships.

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Larry Eder

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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