Coffee with Larry, Eliud Kipchoge gets a statue in Beaverton and a track in Europe, Andre De Grasse returns to Jacksonville, Laura Muir to focus on 3,000m in Glasgow 2024 WIC!
Coffee with Larry, Oct 26, 2023, Eliud gets statue and track, DeGrasse back to Jacksonville, Laura M to run Glasgow 3000m in WC and more!
This is our agenda today:
1. Eliud KIpchoge has been with NIKE since 2003 when he was a wee lad of 18.
2. At 18, Eliud won the 5,000m in Paris at the World champs and surprised many! He went on to compete in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011, as well as Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
Nike commissioned this statue of Eliud KIpchoge for the Beaverton, Oregon, campus
3. It took him a couple of years to move up to the marathon.
4. HIs marathon wins have been formidable.
5. NIKE has commissioned a statue of Eliud on the Beaverton campus and named a track after him at NIKE HQ Europe.
6. Andre de Grasse is moving with his family and partner, Nia Ali, back to Jacksonville.
Nia Ali and Andre De Grasse, Zurich Weltklasse, photo by Welktlasse
7. He will be coached by Rana Reider, as he was in 2018-2022.
8. Laura Muir is running the 3,000m at the World Indoors next March in Scotland. Laura is a proud Scottish athlete.
Laura Muir takes 3000m at the 2019 European Indoors, photo by Getty Images for European Athletics
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.
