This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!
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This is Coffee with Larry for Sunday, June 1, 2025.
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Our topics:
1. Rabat DL was a superb meeting. From the broadcast, to the Athletes Lounge, the fourth Diamond League meeting in this season was an excellent meeting.
Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR) wins the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase with a time of 8:00.70 at the Meeting International Mohammed VI d’Athlétisme de Rabat, part of the Wanda Diamond League, on Sunday 25 May 2025, photo by Diamond League AG
2. The Grand Slam Track 3 meeting in Philly was spectacular on day 1. Watch my comments on Tuesday.
Anna Cockrell, Scenes from Day 1 at the Grand Slam Track on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Taylor Sims.
3. Glad Mark Bossardet is recovering well after elbow surgery. Boz is a friend since 1986, who has supported me through thick and thin. Boz is a good friend to many, and a total running geek. Glad he is doing well.
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.
