Coffee with Larry, May 13, 2025, Goteborg WC 1995, Jonathan Edwards, Kim Batten, Visiting Sweden, A Rave and Conversations with a Hedgehog

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

Coffee with Larry is your almost daily podcast from #RunBlogRun for Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

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

Coffee with Larry is sponsored by OMIUS, the cooling technology company, which you can find at www.omius.io.

Omius hat with cooling cubes, photo courtesy of Omius

Coffee with Larry is supported by Pace Events, managers of #DubaiMarathon. Mark your calendar for February 1, 2026. #PACEEventsFZ

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

The adidas Atlanta City Games, sponsored by #adidas, is May 17, 2025, you can watch on NBC from 3-4 PM Eastern on May 17!

Global Athletics and Marketing is managing this event for the Atlanta Track Club. GAM also manages the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix , now coming into year 31. https://www.globalathletics.com/

#adidas, ##adidasAtlantaCityGames, #adidasrunning,

2024 adidas Atlanta City Games, photo by Kevin Morris

Our topics:

1. My first visit to an Olympics was LA. I was able to get tickets from my boss, Bob Anderson, at Runners World, for $60. Saw the 10,000m with Marti Vanio and Alberto Cova and the 800m with Seb Coe. Went home, purchased first color TV to watch rest of Olympics. It was electric!

2. My first trip out side US coincided with 1995 Goteborg World Champs. Saw Jonathan Edwards TJ WRs, Michael Johnson, and Haile Gebrselassie. Kim Batten and Tonja Buford Bailey break 400m hurdle WR was, well life changing!

Goteborg 1995 World Athletics Championships logo

3. In Goteborg 1995, went to first and only RAVE, and spoke to a Hedgehog, for more details, you have to listen to hear this one!

4. Please listen to Noah Lyles Interview I did for this season! https://www.runblogrun.com/…/noah-lyles-assess-the…

Noah communicates, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
Track & Field meet
February 2, 2025
Boston,MA USA, photo by Kevin R. Morris

5. Here’s the Galen Rupp interview I recorded from Chicago Marathon in 2024, first time posted! How to have a long career in running, from Galen Rupp! https://www.runblogrun.com/…/galen-rupp-at-the-2024…. #GalenRupp

Galen Rupp, 10,000m, Portland Track Classic, May 2021, photo by How Lao Photography

See you tomorrow 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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