Coffee with Larry, March 14, 2024, Nike Pre Classic announces Amazing Mile, Jim Weber resigns as CEO, Dan Sheridan announced as new CEO at Brooks, Great weekend at New Balance Indoor Champs!

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This is Coffee with Larry for Saturday, March 14, 2024.

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Our topics today:

1. Bravo to NIKE and NIKE Pre-Class on putting together the Mile of the Century!

2. Brooks announces that Jim Weber has resigned as CEO after 23 years at the helm. Dan Sheridan will replace him. Brooks planned this succession, and it was well-received.

2011 Brooks PR Invite, President of Brooks, Jim Weber with a member of the Brooks Beasts TC (not an actual Gorilla), photo by Brooks Communicaiton

3. Chanelle Price, memories of Sopot 2014, by Stuart Weir, https://www.runblogrun.com/2024/03/chanelle-price-ran-her-race-a-memory-from-2014.html

Chanelle Price, pacing, photo by Getty Images for British Athletics

4. This is a fun interview with Noah Lyles from Budapest! RunBlogRun presents Noah Lyles – adidas Press Conference, 2023 World Athletics Championships – Budapest , filmed by Deji Ogeyingbo, https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/11/runblogrun-presents-noah-lyles-adidas-press-conference-2023-world-athletics-championships-budapest.html?fbclid=IwAR0OZdUP1WbIYElQJxMyIWSLmJV1mPWQFS3Uah0od4-MfDXOC3npBdp_9EQ

Noah Lyles, photo by Brian Eder for RunBlogRun

5. The Long Jump Controversy Grows, by Stuart Weir, https://www.runblogrun.com/2024/03/changing-the-format-of-the-long-jump-and-a-few-other-events.html

Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps a massive 7.18 meter long jump, leading the world, photo by Kevin Morris

6. Emily Sisson makes her second team, https://www.runblogrun.com/2024/02/making-the-olympic-team-some-thoughts-on-emily-sisson.html?fbclid=IwAR3GPNQq_dDtsdSfEXUCvX5MaSnHWI3HyEQfyD18jWdqGiDmHNiRDOJz34U

Emily Sisson makes her second Olympic team, photo by Kevin Morris.

7. The last weekend in Boston was a fantastic celebration of indoor track and field. 5000 athletes and SRO in Reggie Lewis and The TRACK at New Balance, thanks to great crews at both facilities and sixty officials! Here’s the complete results of NB Indoor Nationals 2024: https://flashresults.com/2024_Meets/Indoor/03-07_NBIN/index.htm

Sadie Engelhardt took the Girls Junior Mile, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Track & Field
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 3, 2023
World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, photo by Kevin Morris

See you tomorrow on Coffee with Larry!

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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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