Coffee with Larry, Episode 830, January 2, 2026, the New Year is here!

Coffee with Larry, Episode 830, January 2, 2026

This is #CoffeewithLarry, our nearly daily podcast from RunBlogRun.

We are on episode 830.

Our topics:

1. Happy New Year!

2. We sent out issue #14 for the #BrooksRunGuideCoachingnewsletter on December 31, 2025. This was issue 14. We thank Brooks for its support of our coaching newsletter in 2025.

3. Watch for a relaunch of our coaching newsletter mid-January! We will expand the newsletter to 39,000 track coaches (high school, college, club), 16,000 XC coaches (high school, college) and athletic trainers! Details soon!

4. RunBlogRun will be covering LIVE the following events:

A January 10, 2026, World Cross Country, Tallahassee, FLA, –https://worldathletics.org/…/world…/tallahassee26

B. January 11, 2026-USA Club Cross Country, https://www.usatf.org/…/2025-26-usatf-national-club…

C. January 24, 2026-New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, The Track At New Balance, www.nbindoorgrandprix.com

D. February 1, 2026, 2026 Millrose Games— www.millrosegames.com

E. February 1, 2026, Dubai, UAE, Dubai Marathon, www.dubaimarathon.org, note the FREE STREAMING LIVE Video by www.ASICS.com on www.RunBlogRun.com and www.Runningnetwork.com sites!

F. February 2-February 8, 2026, Remote coverage of Ostrava Indoor (February 3), Madrid (February 5), and Düsseldorf (February

, at www.runblogrun.com and www.Runningnetwork.com

G. February 14, 2026, RAK Half Marathon, RunBlogRun will be there live! Podcasts by www.runblogrun.com and FREE Live Streaming on RAK Half by ASICSrunning and RunBlogRun!

5. Interviewing Jackson Spencer, winner of NXN and Brooks XC on Monday, January 5, 2026.

6. Watch for our interview of two members of the Wayzata XC Club and their coach!

7. NIKE XC, The JOURNEY TO COMPETE, Cross Country, issue 13 was sent out January 2, 2026. You can find it on Saturday at www.runningnetwork.com ! Sign up for it at [email protected], note NIKE XC, and we will put you on the list! Read more: https://www.runblogrun.com/2026/01/thejourneytocompeteissue-13-january-2-2026-the-nike-cross-country-newsletter-the-world-champs-come-to-the-usa.html

8. Happy New Year!

See you Monday, January 5 for #CoffeewithLarry!

9. RunBlogRun will be covering the World XC Champs!

See you next week on Coffee with Larry!

Elite women leaders, 2025 Dubai Marathon, photo by Giancarlo Colombu /Dubai Marathon

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.

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