This is the program, Coffee with Larry, posted for Friday, October 28, 2022, from RunBlogRun.
The NYC Marathon is now in its fifty-first year. Founded in 1970 as a loop course around Central Park, the NYC Marathon went to the five borough course in 1976 and never looked back. Over 50,000 runners will compete in this iconic race on November 6, 2022. This writer has been visiting the Big Apple for the NYC Marathon since 1985 (the year that I ran the NYC Marathon) and has missed only a couple years in all of that time.
The 2022 NYC Marathon week is upon us. There are always captivating things to do in New York. Unfortunately, I will be covering the event on a remote basis, as I just had surgery and need to stay out of large crowds for a few more weeks.
1939 Marathon shoe, cobbled by Adi Dassler, photo by adidas Communications
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This is Coffee With Larry for Friday, October 28, 2022.
Our topics today:
1. Fred Lebow and the beginnings of the New York City Marathon.
2. The New York City Marathon was founded in 1970 and was run as laps around Central Park.
3. The Five Borough Marathon was a Bicentennial Event that began in 1976.
4. It was supposed to be one year only!
5. The NYRR made the marathon an NYC fixture.
6. How will the NYC Marathon come back from the pandemic?
7. How will marathons change over the next few years?
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.
