Coffee with Larry, NYCM at 51, Inside Runner's World (1981-1987), Considering NYC Marathon Week

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

This is #CoffeeWithLarry for Monday, October 30, 2023.

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Our topics;

1. This is NYC Marathon week!
2. In its 51st year, the NYC Marathon continues to
evolve.
3. First began in Central Park in 1970, the NYC Marathon was a loop course around Central Park.
4. Moved to Five Borough course in 1976, was only supposed to happen one year.
5. It just kept going.
6. The 51st NYC will be glorious. Great fields,
big fields and huge crowds.
7. The NCAA cross-country season is getting exciting.
8. RunnersWorld, my time in Mountain View (1981-1985)
9. Monday was the weekly department meeting headed by Publisher Bob Anderson.
10. I represented the advertising dept. We could not mention Runner magazine, a competitor to RW, founded by George Hirsch.
11. I did a monograph on Runner (40-50 pp). Now, see how much I did not get, but it got Bob Anderson to think about how to battle Runner. At the time, ignoring the magazine was not a good option.
12. More details to come.
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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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