Coffee with Larry, February 17, 2025, More thoughts on Mile/1,500m WRs, 3000m/5000m Wrs, and Chase Jackson AR at shot put!

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

This is #CoffeewithLarry for February 18, 2025.

This Day in Track & Field-December 2, Frank Shorter wins Fukuoka Marathon for third time (1973), Born this Day: Mike Larrabee, two-time 1964 Olympic gold medalist (400m, 4x400m), written by Walt Murphy

The Brooks Run Guide Interviews, Julian Florez, Assistant Coach, Brooks Beasts Track Club, Episode 9

The Brooks Run Guide, A Brooks Coaching Newsletter, Back Issues (#1-#9), Fall/Winter 2025

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Our topics;

1. The last weekend of track and field and road racing was stupendous!

2. Yared Nuguse’s third Wanamaker win and 3:46.63 WR mile was amazing end to Millrose Games! Hobbs Kessler impressed in second place in 3:46.90!

Yared Nuguse, 117th Millrose Games
The Armory, New York, NY, USA, photo by Kevin R. Morris

3. The Men’s mile WR last five days. Jakob Ingebrigtsen was focused on the 1,500m and he went another 109 meters, and ran 3:29.63 and 3:45.14! Not since John Landy in 1954 had that been done!

Jakob Ingebrigtsen sets WR at 1,500m and Mile at Meeting de Lieven, February 13, 2025. Photos by Maxime Delobel

4. Grant Fisher’s 3,000m and 5,000m WRs should put him into the global running stratosphere, when one adds the two Olympic medals!

Grant Fisher runs AR for 2 Miles in 8:03.62, photo by Kevin Morris/Millrose Games

5. Jacob Kiplimo’s Half Marathon WR was just crazy, four 13:26 5,000 meter runs in a row, that is Lasse Virens’ time at Montreal 1976 when he won over Dick Quax!, done four times!

Jacob Kiplimo sets WR of 56:42 at the half marathon! Photo design by World Athletics

6. Chase Jackson set an AR in the shot put in 20.24m at Torun! Can she get the WL of Sarah Mitton (20.68m)!

Chase Jackson set new AR of 20.24m in Torun (Karlesruhe shown here), photo by World Athletics

See you tomorrow with #CoffeewithLarry

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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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