Coffee with Larry, April 28, 2025: Drake Relays, Penn Relays, Xiamen Diamond League, Adizero Road to Records, London Marathon

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

Coffee with Larry graphic, photo by StarGazerPics, graphic design by Mike Deering

This is #CoffeewithLarry for Monday, April 28, 2025.

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Coffee With Larry, our almost daily podcast, has several sponsors:

Coffee with Larry is sponsored through August 2025 by OMIUS, the cooling technology company. OMIUS ( www.omius.io ) makes headbands, visors and hat with cooling pods. Moisten the cooling pods every 45 minutes, and the athlete stays cool. Sifan Hassan and Bashir Abdi used OMIUS headbands in the hot and humid Paris Olympics.

Sifan Hassan won the Paris Olympic marathon, wearing the OMIUS head band, photo courtesy of OMIUS

PACE EVENTS announced the 25 anniversary of the Dubai Marathon will be on 1 February 2026, register at www.dubaimarathon.org .

Buta Gemechu en route to his win at 2025 Dubai, photo by Giancarlo Columbo/Dubai Marathon

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Brooks Running, our longest partner, is sponsoring the #BrooksPRInvite on June 8, 2025. On July 12, Brooks is sponsoring the #SunsetTour stop by #SoundRunning. Brooks makes superb track spikes and training shoes, find them at www.brooksrunning.com .

Brooks Women’s Bedlam 5, with DNA technology!

Our topics:

1. The Penn Relays were covered by Orrin Konheim for RunBlogRun, here’s his story on Day 1: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/finding-franklin-field-penn-relays-2025-first-day.html?swcfpc=1

2025 Penn Relays, April 25, 2025, photo by Orin Konheim

2. The Drake Relays, in its 115th year, featured some wonderful miles, here’s a podcast on Shelby Houlihan, Karissa Schweizer and Francie Larrieu-Smith: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/50th-anniversary-of-the-one-mile-record-at-drake-relays.html?swcfpc=1

Presser for the 50th Anniversary of the Drake Relays Women’s Mile

3. The first meet of the Diamond League season, Xiamen DL, was held on April 26, 2025, here’s a review of the meet: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/warholm-flies-over-7-hurdles-in-33-05-to-highlight-first-diamond-league-meet-of-season-xiamen-diamond-league.html?swcfpc=1

Wanda Diamond League Red Star Macalline Xiamen 26 April 2025

4. FloTrack is hosting the broadcast of Diamond League in 2025 in North America, here’s our interview with Ryan Fenton: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/runblogrun-presents-socialing-the-distance-featuring-ryan-fenton-episode-133.html?swcfpc=1

Akani Simbine (RSA) wins the Men’s 100m with a time of 9.99s at the Wanda Diamond League Red Star Macalline Xiamen on 26 April 2025

5. AdiZero Road to Records was held on April 26 in Germany, here’s a review of their fast times! https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/adizero-road-to-records-delivers-with-10k-womens-only-wr-mile-wl-for-men-and-women-and-5k-road-wl.html?swcfpc=1

Yomif KEJELCHA wins the Men’s 5000m with a time of 12:46.91 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Zurich on 31 Aug 2023, photo by Diamond League AG

6. The London Marathon had serious marathon fields, with Sabastien Sawe and Tigst Assefa, both adidas athletes, taking the races! Here’s a piece by Deji Ogeyingbo, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/a-changing-of-the-guard-at-the-2025-london-marathon.html?swcfpc=1

Tigst Assefa, TCS London Marathon
April 27, 2025
London, England, United Kingdom, photo by Kevin Morris

7. Athletic Ventures (UK Athletics, Great Run and London Marathon Events) join to bid for 2029 World Outdoor Athletics Championships, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/04/athletic-ventures-announce-campaign-to-bring-world-athletics-championships-to-london-in-2029.html

London Diamond League, photo by Stuart Weir

See you tomorrow on 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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