Coffee with Larry, Amost LIVE from Portugal , January 3, 2025, Happy New Year, Dubai Marathon (January 12), RAK Half (Feb.1), NB Indoor GP (Feb 2)!

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

This is Coffee with Larry for Friday, January 3, 2025, recorded in Porto, Portugal.

#CoffeeWithLarry, Episode 845, February 9, 2026, A week from RAK Half Marathon! Geoffrey Kamworer and Ababel Yeshaneh return to Ras Al Khaimah!

Dubai Marathon delivers again as Ethiopia owns the anniversary stage

#CoffeewithLarry, January 26, 2026, Episode 841, LIVE from Dubai (Media Rotana Hotel), thoughts on New Balance Indoor, Dubai Marathon WEEK, and Millrose coming! My crazy journey to Dubai!

Coffee with Larry is an almost daily podcast, sponsored by OMIUS, the cooling technology company, found at www.OMIUS.IO.

OMIUS headbands, featuring cooling pods created by OMIUS, were used by Sifan Hassan in the women’s 2024 Paris Olympic Marathon.

Check out OMIUS at www.omius.io

Our topics’

1. Dubai marathon is open for registration until January 11, 2025, for more info, go to www.dubaimarathon.org The race is January 12, 2025 and Pace Events and adidas running, the organizer and sponsor, are providing FREE and LIVE streaming video of the marathon! RunBlogRun will be covering the race via social remotely.

Ethiopia’s Dera Dida, winner of the 2023 Dubai Marathon, will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai on January 7, photo from Pace Events/Dubai Marathon

2. The RAK Half Marathon is February 1, 2025, and registration and info can be found at www.RAKHalfmarathon.com Steaming and Live video will be provided globally for the race. RunBlogRun will be on site and providing daily podcasts promoting the event. The RAK is one of the finest half marathons in the world!

3. The 2025 NB Indoor GP is February 2, 2025, with great fields. Get your tickets at www.nbindoorpg.com and watch the event on NBC Sports! RunBlogRun will be there to provide social commentary, as we have done for twenty plus years!

Noah Lyles, 60m winner, 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 Wednesday, January 8, at Coffee with Larry!

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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