This is Coffee with Larry, April 3, 2025, The first Grand Slam Track , how it works.

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

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

Today is April 3, 2025, a Thursday.

Josh Hoey and the night the clock gave in

#CoffeewithLarry, Episode 839! January 22, 2026, at THE LENOX HOTEL, Boston, MA. for the 2026 NB Indoor Grand Prix!

What I Eat: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner, by Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Coffee with Larry is sponsored by our friends at OMIUS, the cooling technology company, which you can find at www.OMIUS.IO.

Omius hat with cooling cubes, photo courtesy of Omius

If you are a coach, an elite athlete send me a note at [email protected] and I will send you an OMIUS sample, as the OMIUS folks would like some comments on their product!

Special thanks to PACE Events, managers of #DubaiMarathon and the #RasAlKhaimahHalfMarathon (thanks to Peter Connerton and Alan Ewan).

Special thanks to Global Athletics & Marketing. Mark Wetmore, their co-founder and CEO, and his team of merry sports pranksters put on the #NBIndoorGP at the #TRACKatNewBalance, where I have gone for 28 of the past 30 years!

Mariano Garcia, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Track & Field
Boston Massachusetts, USA
February 3, 2023
World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, photo by Kevin Morris

Finally, please support #BrooksRunning! Brooks has been sponsoring my projects since 1990 under Tom Carmody and Helen Rockey! Jim Weber kept the fire burning with Dave Larson, Jesse Williams, and Dan Sheridan. Now, Amanda Reiss, Garrett Heath, and Jillian Zech, for their continued support. Brooks makes tremendous running shoes. I love the Glycerin Max, Cascadia GTX 16, and Brooks Ghost Max. To see Brook’s footwear and apparel, please go to www.brooksrunning.com!

Brooks Glycerin MAX, photo by Brooks Running

Out topics today:

1. The Grand Slam Track debut is here, April 4-6, 2025!

Grand Slam Track Kingston will be April 4-6, 2025

2. TV for Grand Slam Track will be in 189 countries.

3. The Boston Marathon is on April 21, 2025.

Sara Hall, 15th place, 2024 Boston Marathon, photo by Kevin Morris

4. The first Diamond League of 2025 is on April 26, 2025, in Xiamen, China.

6. The LA Grand Prix for 2025 has been canceled. While no one has gone on the record as to why, our contacts suggested that it is the simple fact that USATF has no money.

7. The Grand Slam Track #2 is in Miami, Florida, for May 2-4, 2025 at the Ansin Sports Complex.

See you on April 4, 2025.

This is #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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