This is the second year of the USATF LA Grand Prix. It is a very important event.
Yet, USATF did absolutely no promotions before two weeks via social. The crowd was absolutely embarrassing, and we offered to help USATF promote meet and sell tickets, but they never responded.
The good news is you can watch the meet on Peacock and NBC.
The Peacock broadcast begins at 3 PM. Eastern time!
Old TV model, courtesy of Pinterest
A fantastic Distance Carnival last night and the LA Grand Prix today are building to the LA 2028 Olympics. We sure hope the USATF can take more interest in promoting events in our sport. That is part of their job.
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.
