This is Episode 584 of #CoffeewithLarry for March 7, 2026. The ASICS Marathon is coming, Deep thoughts on a busy first two months of 2026!

This is Episode 584 of #CoffeewithLarry for March 7, 2026. The ASICS Marathon is coming, Deep thoughts on a busy first two months of 2026!

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field! We go LIVE Monday-Saturday, at 10 Am Central time in the U.S.A. Email me at [email protected]!

Our topics:

1. The ASICS LA Marathon will celebrate its 41st edition this year!

2. ASICS took the race over as sponsor in 2019, I believe, and they have done an amazing job on this major event.

LA Marathon, artwork by ASICS LA Marathon

3. Back in the early 1990s, Fred Lebow, the late, great NYC marathon impressario noted to me that LA Marathon should be a great one! I believe it was event noted in the major magazines.

4. LA Marathon had seven ownership groups before it grew roots. Bill Burke and Marie Patrick, the mercurial team that also managed the LA 1984 Olympic tennis events, managed the Marathon for two plus decades, with some colorful asides. The McCourt Foundation took over the marathon about a decade ago, and ASICS came on board, once again, around 2019.

LA Marathon, photo by McCourt Foundation

5. To learn more about this race, which I ran in 1987, in its inaugural run, in a pair of ASICS GEL Kayanos, I believe (in 3:51, my PB at the time was 2:48.12), go to www.lamarathon.com

See you soon on #CoffeewithLarry!

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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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