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This is Coffee With Larry for Wednesday, January 17, 2024.
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Our topics today;
1. The World Athletics Indoor Tour begins Jan 27, 2024, in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Astana Indoor Meeting Facility, Astana, Kazakhstan, photo from Official Astana Indoor Meeting
2. The NB Indoor Grand Prix is February 4, 2024, in its 29th year, do not miss it! www.nbindoorgrandprix.com
3. The US Olympic Trials Marathon is February 3, 2024! www.usatf.org.
6. This weekend, the USATF Cross Country is January 20, 2024, www.usatf.org.
7. The European Athletics Association will provide 500k Euros for performance bonuses for the Rome championships in June 2024!
ISTANBUL, TURKEY – MARCH 04: Femke Bol of the Netherlands celebrates after winning the Women’s 400m Final during Day 2 of the European Athletics Indoor Championships at the Atakoy Arena on March 04, 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)
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.