This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!
This is Coffee with Larry for Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
Our topics today:
1. Revelling in the wonderful Olympic Trials that we just attended.
2. Thankful for friends and gathering at the Wild Duck Cafe!
Mike Fanelli memorialized at the Duck, photo by Paul Merca
3. Some of the fine performances at the Olympic Trials.
4. Tracktown, USOC, and USATF did an incredible job on the Trials. Perhaps the city of Eugene needs to figure out how to manage hotel prices and keep restaurants open during major events.
Hayward Field, September 17, 2023, photo by Brian Eder for RunBlogRun
5. Eugene is a great host, but for 2028, should we consider Mt.SAC?
6. Can Mt.SAC and USATF play well together after the last debacle? What would the late Don Ruh say?
Don Ruh, photo courtesy of Mt.SAC Track & Field
7. The good thing is that Mt.SAC Relays is a NIKE event, so that could help!
Max Siegel and Casey Wasserman, USATF Olympic Team Track & Field Trials Eugene, Oregon, USA June 21-30, 2024, photo by KevMofoto
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.
