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

This is Monday, March 25, 2024.

This is Coffee with Larry, your daily podcast on all things track and field.

Coffee With Larry began in June 2022 on a bit of a lark, and we are glad that so many continue to follow it and pass it on to friends.

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Our topics:

1. One of my favorite stories is Jan Merrill running a 5,000m AR at the #StanfordInvite on March 22, 1980.

Jan Merrill, Tatyana Kazankina, Montreal 1976, photo by Mark Shearman

2. I ran my then-PB of 33:20 at 10,000m the day after an 18-mile day (I found that I got in at 10 PM the night before). Danny Grimes and Duncan McDonald were in the race. My winning time was about 28:58.

3. Jan Merrill ran 15:30.6 just before our race, setting an AR. She was one of the finest athletes of her era.

Jan Merrill, Grete Waitz, photo by Mark Shearman

4. Thank god that the 10,000 meters is getting better treatment, but I fear that the speed required makes all specialists.

5. See you tomorrow on #CoffeewithLarry.

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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