Coffee with Larry, Episode 798, October 13, 2025, Chicago Marathon 2025, Wow!

#CoffeewithLarry, Episode 798, October 13, 2025, Chicago Marathon 2025 had two Compelling races!

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Coffee with Larry ventured to Chicago, Illinois last week, powered by #NIKERunning.

Our topics:

1. The Men’s and Women’s elite races were compelling. Jakob Kiplimo dominated the men’s race, winning in 2:02:43 PB, and Hawi Feysa ran 2:14:56 PB !

Hawi Feysa, ETH wins the Bank of America Chicago Marathon in 2:15:56, photo by Kevin Morris for Bank of America Chicago Marathon

2. Top Americans, Connor Mantz finished 4th in 2:04:43 PB, and Natosha Rogers finished 6th in 2:23:28 PB.

Connor Mantz, USA, takes 4th in 2:04:43, a new PB and AR, photo by Bank of America Chicago Marathon Kevin Morris

3. Connor Mantz broke the 23-year-old American record, held by Khalid Khannouchi since 2002, of 2:05:38, then the world record! Khalid won Chicago in 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2002!

4. In two weeks, we are off to 2025 NYC Marathon. We will be working with a new partner, FurnishedQuarters.com, more on that later!

5. NXN has regionals on November 9 and November 22, with finals on December 6, 2025! Check out www.NIKECrossNationals.com or https://nxn.runnerspace.com/ !

6. Brooks XC Nationals, presented by #FleetFeet, has announced a streaming deal with #FloTrack, details coming, Regionals are November 29 and December 6, with Nationals on December 14! Remember, 20 athletes will get #GoldenTickets! https://www.fleetfeet.com/cross-country-championship !

7. #RunBlogRun will be working with Pace Events on their two events, #DubaiMarathon, to be held on February 1, 2026, www.dubaimarathon.org . The #RAKHalfMarathon will be held on February 14, 2026, www.RaKHalfMarathon.com !

8. Check out our new newsletter for Coaches, #BrooksOnRunning, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/10/brooks-on-running-presents-the-brooks-coaching-newsletter-1-october-1-2025-recovery-days-are-essential.html?swcfpc=1

Creed Thompson, Brooks NIL athlete, photo by Brooks communications

9. Love cross country? Here’s our collab with #NIKERunning on #CrossCountry and the #NIKENationalCross ! https://runningnetwork.com/index.php/news/440-nike-xc-newsletter-journey-to-compete-issue-1-october-10-2025

Jane HEDENGREN, won the 2024 NIKE NXN girls cross country championships by 40 seconds! photo courtesy of RUNNERSPACE

See you on Tuesday on #CoffeewithLarry

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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