Coffee With Larry, Live from Doha, Qatar, adidas Atlanta City Games, Thinking of Tori Bowie, TRACKFEST, and all the hummus this writer can hope for!

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

This is Coffee With Larry, live from Doha, Qatar for the opening of the Diamond League! This is CWL for Wednesday, May 3, 2023!

1. This is the final schedule for the 2023 Doha Diamond League, May 5, 2023.https://doha.diamondleague.com/programme-results-doha/

2. RunBlogRun will be here, LIVE providing social commentary, stories and pithy comments, find us on twitter, FB and IG at RunBlogRun.

Glorious middle eastern food, en route to Doha, May 2, 2023, photo by Larry Eder

3. Managers tell me, the women’s 100 meters is stunning! Dina Asher-Smith, Sha’Carri Richardson, Abby Steiner, Sherika Jackson, Twanisha Terry!

Dina Asher-Smith, photo by Getty Images for British Athletics

4. I think the Men’s 200m with Kenny Bednarek, Andre De Grasse, Fred Kerley and Mike Norman could be insane!

5. The Doha DL will end with Faith Kipyegon running, this writer predicts, the obvious WL!

6. All you need to know on the adidas Atlanta City Games, May 6, in Atlanta, GA, on streaming and onsite, 3.30PM-9.40 PM, https://www.adidasatlantacitygames.com/meet-info

7. NB Outdoor Champs, June 15-18, 2023 (sponsored), www.nbnationals.com.

8. Do not miss the biggest 10k in the known universe, #peachtreeroadrace, (sponsored), www.atlantatrackclub.org/peachtree!

9. Looking for a discus or a pole for vaulting, check out Fibersport USA (sponsored), www.fibersportsusa.com.

10. Tori Bowie, one of our most talented sprinters, tragically died on 3 May at the age of 32, this is a memorial written by Stuart Weir, https://www.adidasatlantacitygames.com/meet-info

Noah Lyles in Atlanta to help announce adidas Atlanta Games, photo by Paul Ward

11. Watch for some fun pieces from Deji Ogeyingbo this weekend, as well as Stuart Weir, and Justin Lagat, on #runblogrun!

12. If you are in LaLaLand on May 6, then, we recommend not buying a couple of Lattes and take that $15 and go to TRACKFEST at Hilmer Lodge Stadium, on May 6, 2023 for Sound Running’s fun track meet, you get six food trucks, a beer garden, athletes running their hearts out and Hilmer Lodge Stadium! https://www.soundrunning.run/trackfest

#CoffeewithLarry, #DOHADL, #DOHA, #addiasAtlantaTrackClub, #ToriBowie, #peachtreeroadrace, #runBlogRun, #runningnetwork,

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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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