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Coffee with Larry, Episode 781, August 18, 2025: Some stories from my days at Ford Motor Company, Gil Hegwood, Silesia DL

by Larry Eder

August 19, 2025

in Coffee With Larry

Four world leads: Kipyegon 8:07.04, Hodgkinson 1:54.74, Bol 51.91 and Warholm 46.28 in Silesia!

Yared Nuguse (USA) wins the Men’s 1500m with a time of 3:33.19 at the Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, part of the Wanda Diamond League, on Saturday, August 16, 2025, in Silesia, Poland, photo by Diamond League Ag

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

This is #CoffeewithLarry for Episode 781, August 18, 2025.

Coffee with Larry is sponsored by OMIUS, the cooling technology company, located at www.omius.io

Here’s a video on running with the OMIUS headband: https://youtu.be/9UcqHiF34W0?si=I68LeZpkWwd1zeY5

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

RunningNetwork has been sponsored since 1990 by #BrooksRunning. RunBlogRun has been sponsored by #Brooks since 2006. Learn more at www.brooksrunning.com

Brooks Ghost 17, photo by Brooks running

Our topics,

1. My story of working at Ford Motor Company. I worked on the assembly line in Milpitas Ford Plant, 1978-1981. My father worked at Ford, 1960-1983, My grandfather, 1945 (?)-1958.

Ford Motor Company early log, from Ford Motor Company.

2. Gil Hegwood, a friend of my father, Stan Eder, Sr. Some stories about a survivor of Corrigedor /Bataan Death March.

3. Results of Silesia Diamond League, August 15-16, 2025. A superb meeting in Poland!

The 100m hurdle race in Silesia: Nadine Visser, Masai Russell, Megan Tapper, photo by Diamond League AG

Special thanks to #NIKErunning for their support of RunBlogRun’s travel to NIKE Pre Classic and USATF!

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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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