This is Coffee with Larry.
This is CWL for September 11, 2023.
Coffee with Larry is our daily, well almost daily news program on RunBlogRun From Fortius Media.
Our topics:
- My birthday is 9/11; it is a complicated day for me.
- Lost several classmates who were on the flights that hit the Towers.
- Spent the day waiting to see if the photographer, Victah Sailer, was alive, as he was a firefighter.
- Victah called me at 11:55 p.m. on 9/11 that he was alive. I was very grateful.
- 9/11/72 was my first cross-country race at DeSmet Jesuit High School in Creve Coeur, Mo.
- I ran 18:09 for two miles. I did not win my first race until nine years later, as a senior at Santa Clara University, where I ran 33:20 for 5.8 miles in Almaden Quicksilver Park. I had run 300 races by then.
- Cross country is my favorite part of sport.
- Started writing at RW in 1983 with Don Bowden piece. Thanks to John Brant and Danny Ferrara.
- I am grateful to all who I have met along the road.
- See you tomorrow with Coffee with Larry !
