Coffee with Larry, December 9, 2024, Live from the Porter Square Hotel in Cambridge, MA! NIKE NXN, European XC Champs, FootLocker Nationals next weekend!

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This is Coffee with Larry for Monday, December 9, 2024.

Live from Porter Square Hotel, Cambridge, MA ( www.portersquarehotel.com )

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Our topics today;

1. Congrats to the winners of the 20th NIKE NXN Cross Country Championships, held last Saturday at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland, Oregeon. The Girls team winner was Denver, with 75 points, Lone Peak, with 107 points and Clovis with 121 points. The Boys’ team winner was Niwot, 70 points, American Fork, 96, Herriman, 106 points.

2. Jane Hedengren (SW) won in 16.32.7, some 40 seconds ahead of her nearest competitor, Victoria Garces, who had won the MW FootLocker the week prior, in 17:13.4. Elizabeth Leachman, 2023 winner of FL, was third in 17:13.7, Keegan Edwards, 17:13.7, Addy Ritzehnhein, 17:16.0.

3. Charlie Vause surprised a few folks with his fine win in 15:28.1. TJ Hansen was second in 15:30.6, Caden Leonard, was third in 15:31.0, Thomas Latham was 4th in 15:32.4, and Evan Noonan was fifth in 15:32.7.

4. This is the 20th year of the NIKE NXN event, which got its wings from the NIKE Border Clash, which was held for over 15 years as a battle between Oregon and Washington cross country high school best. I loved that event.

5. SPAR European Cross Country Champs were December 8, 2024, in Anatlya, Turkey. Spain took the men’s senior title, and Italy took the womens. Jakob Ingebrigtsen won his 3rd senior title and Nadia Battocletti won her first. Team GB won U23, U20 Men and women plus individual, more details tomorrow.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Norway, won his 3rd SPAR EA XC Champs, photo by Getty Images

6. Here’s Deji’s story on the SPAR Eurocross:

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Returns with a Statement Win at European Cross Country Championships https://www.runblogrun.com/…/jakob-ingebrigtsen-returns

7. You can watch the FREE Streaming of #FootLockerXC 45, presented by #HOKA, at www.footlockerxc.com on December 14, 2024, at 9:15 AM Pacific for the Girls Champ race, and 10 AM Pacific for the Boys, #timetofly

FootLocker National Cross Country Champonships

8. If you stay in Boston or Cambridge, please check out our fave hotel, the Porter Square Hotel in Cambridge! www.portersquarehotel.com

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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