Coffee with Larry, Coach Vitello names to Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, Dubai Marathon to give EXEED SUV away to competing runner, Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson win Jesse Owens and Jackie Joyner Kersee Awards!

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

This is our podcast, #CoffeewithLarry, for Wednesday, November 22, 2023.

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Our topics;

1. 2024 Dubai Marathon is January 7, 2024. 4k, 10k, and marathon will have about 20,000, making it the largest and fastest race in the Middle East!

2. Want to win a new EXEED SUV at #DubaiMarathon, please check here: https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/11/dubai-marathon-runners-set-sights-on-exeed-lx-suv.html

3. NCAA Cross country was fantastic! Here’s the story from Oliver Nilson on the Men’s race! Blanks makes history, Cowboys dominate at NCAA championships (the NCAA Men’s XC Div I story) by Oliver Hinson https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/11/blanks-makes-history-cowboys-dominate-at-ncaa-championships-the-ncaa-mens-xc-div-i-story-by-oliver-hinson.html , #NCAAXC, #NCAA, #crosscountry,

Graham Blanks of Harvard becomes first male Ivy League winner of NCAA Div I Cross Country, photo by James B Daves

4. Congrats to Noah Lyles on winning 2023 #JesseOwens Awards! Here’s a great interview with Noah: https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/11/runblogrun-presents-noah-lyles-adidas-press-conference-2023-world-athletics-championships-budapest.html

5. Congrats to Sha’Carri Richardson on winning the Jackie Joyner Kersee Award from USATF in 2023! This is an interview from LA Grand Prix: https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/05/la-grand-prix-presser-ajee-wilson-sam-kendricks-shacarri-richardson-mondo-duplantis-christian-colemena-brooks-andersen.html

Sha’Carri Richardson reacts to winning 100m, Getty Images for World Athletics

6. Looks whose coming to Boston on February 4, 2023! https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/11/triple-world-champion-noah-lyles-set-to-return-to-boston-for-new-balance-indoor-grand-prix-on-feb-4-world-silver-medalist-gabby-thomas-and-2022-world-champion-jake-wightman-confirmed-for-the-29th-an.html

7. Clyde Hart’s 400 meter training-a classic! https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/04/clyde-harts-guide-to-400-meter-training-from-1996-super-clinic-notes-world-coaches-notes.html

8. Congratulations to Coach Vitello, who was inducted into the @MoSportsHall today – Coach Vitello spent 46 years teaching and coaching at De Smet Jesuit, guiding young men to reach their potential on & off the field #ThankYou #Man4Others #HOF #Goat-Coach Vitello was our PE coach at #DeSmetJesuit. Congrats Coach!

Coach Greg Vitello, long-time coach at De Smet Jesuit High School, is now in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame!

9. Good luck to all the teams competing at California State XC Champs on Friday, November 24, 2023! (Good luck to Los Altos High and Bellarmine Prep of San Jose)

See you Friday on #CoffeewithLarry and #HappyThanksgiving!

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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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