Coffee with Larry, May 15, 2025, adidas Atlanta City Games, Doha Diamond League and Grand Slam Track!

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

Coffee with Larry is your almost daily podcast from #RunBlogRun for Thursday, May 15, 2025.

Oslo Bislett Games Bislett Stadion, Oslo (NOR), 11-12 June 2025

This Day In Track & Field, June 15, Jack Lovelock wins Mile of Century in front of 35,000 fans at Princeton (1935), Buddy Edelen sets WR in Marathon (1963), written by Walt Murphy

2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, June 15, 2025, week 13, day 7, Second week of sharpening, Second week, transition from track to cross country.

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

Sifan Hassan wins Paris 2024 Marathon, photo from OMIUS

Coffee with Larry is supported by Pace Events, managers of #DubaiMarathon. Mark your calendar for February 1, 2026. Go to dubaimarathon.org for registration and information. #PACEeventsDubai, #DubaiMarathon

Leading elite men, Dubai Marathon 2025, 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/

2024 adidas Atlanta City Games, photo by Kevin Morris

#adidas, ##adidasAtlantaCityGames, #adidasrunning,

Our topics:

1. The adidas Atlanta City Games is a truly creative approach to our sport. Begun in Boston in 2016, this event was moved to Atlanta just three years ago! Here is my thoughts on the fine event.

Anna Hall, adidas Atlanta City Games, photo by Kevin Morris

2. The Doha Diamond League was the first Diamond League meeting in 2010, which I attended. I have been going 2010-2017, and again in 2019, and 2023. I love it. My thoughts on this amazing event!

Stadium crowd at the Jetour Doha Meeting, part of the Wanda Diamond League, on Friday 16 May 2025, photo by Diamond League AG

3. The Grand Slam Track series is now on meet 3. I am quite impressed with this event.

jereem Richards, 19.845 in 200m, Grand Slam Track, photo by Matt Pendleton

4. Here is Elliott Denman’s view of the GST and a sense of history on professional sport, or lack of it in track and field!

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Grand Slam Track, photo by Grand Slam Track

5. Back on Monday, May 19, 2025, and yes, more on my conversation with the Hedgehog, which there were a few questions about. Goteborg, Sweden was one of my favorites, in 1995, back again in 2013. I loved this city and the people of Sweden.

Goteborg 1995 World Athletics Championships logo

Special thanks to Brooks Running, which has sponsored my platforms since 1990. First, #AmericanAthletics, 1990-1994. Then, #AmericanTrackandField, 1994-2016, and #RunningNetwork, 1992-present, and #RunBlogRun, 2007-present. I am walking in the #BrooksGhost17, and #BrooksGhostsGlycerinMAX, which I love all three. I really am liking the #BrooksGhost17, which I had not tried the iconic shoe since early in its development!

Brooks Glycerin MAX, photo by Brooks Running

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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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