Coffee with Larry, RunBlogRun will attend Drake Relays on April 29, and Doha DL, Diamond League opener on May 5!

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and tracks fans on all things track & field!

This is #coffeewithLarry for Friday, April 28, 2023.

Our topics:

1. The Drake Relays will feature World Athletics Continental Tour events on Saturday, April 29, 2023. #RunBlogRun will be there!

2. Next weekend, the Diamond League will open with the Doha Diamond League meeting, and #RunBlogRun will return for the first time to Qatar since 2019.

3. Do not forget to sign up for the 2023 NB Outdoors, June 15-18, 2023 at U Penn’s Franklin Field, (sponsored), www.nbnationals.com

4. Atlanta Track Club will host the adidas Atlanta City Games on Saturday, May 6, 2023.

5. The adidas HQ in Germany will be the sites of an incredibly deep 5k, 10k, and half marathon at the third #RoadtoRecords Meeting. on Saturday, April 29, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/live/xnERiLXufjs?feature=share

6. The Sound Running TrackFEST will be held at Mt.SAC on May 6, 2023 with races from 800m to 10,000m, plus selected field events. Sponsored by #ONrunning, tickets are $15.

7. The USATf LA Grand Prix has announced that hey have Mondo Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin Levrone competing on May 26-27, 2023.

8. Do not miss the Botswana GP on 29 April with some big sprint races!

9. Doha DL will featured Katie Moon, Sandi Morris and Nina Kennedy in the women’s pole vault next Friday, May 5.

10. Register for the Peachtree road race in Atlanta, (sponsored), #adidasrunning, #atlantatrackclub, www.atlantatrackclub.org/peachtree

#CoffeewithLarry

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Author

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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