Coffee with Larry, Dubai Marathon is Jan. 7, 2024, NB Indoor GP is Feb. 3, 2024, RAK Half Marathon is Feb. 24, 2024, SPAR European Cross was wonderful cross Country, and FootLocker satisfies in 44th year!

This is #CoffeeWithLarry, or, in honor of a request from Mark Wetmore, the GAM impresario, #TeaWithLarry! This is Monday, December 11, 2023.

Our topics:

Coffee with Larry, Episode 820, November 25, 2025, Deep thoughts on cross-country season

#CoffeewithLarry, Episode 819, November 24, 2025, it was a Cross-Country Weekend

Coffee with Larry, Episode 818, November 22, 2025, Cross-Country is everywhere!

1. Love Boston, had a nice weekend seeing friends.
2. We stayed at #PorterSquareHotel, a wonderful hotel, thanks to manager Curtis Butcher.
3. Our two other suggestions in Boston: #LenoxHotel and #charlesmarkhotel. Both on Boylston are fun stays.
4. Breakfast dives: Andy’s (near Harvard).
5. Today, we went to Kelly’s Diner, which is two train cars from Delaware, moved in 1996, and it is a wonderful dive breakfast place.
6. Saw the world’s finest bartender, Jefferson, this weekend. Jefferson ran the #Charlesmark bar for 15 years until the hotel owners changed the bar into a restaurant.
7. My place to eat and work, #CityTable, at the #LenoxHotel, the staff is thoughtful and fun, and the food is fantastic. Wifi is great, and the coffee is very good.
8. If I was running a hotel, the #LenoxHotel would be the standard.
9. FootLocker winners this weekend! Elizabeth Leachman and Drew Griffith took girls’ and boys’ titles at 44th Footlocker, sponsored by HOKA.

10. European Athletics SPAR Eurocross Champs happened on Sunday, Karoline Grovdal won her 3rd senior (10th medal), and Yann Shrubb of France won the women’s and men’s titles. GB took seven medals, and it was a day of #GloriousMud!

Axel Van Christensen, Belgium, U 20, photo by Getty Images for European Athletics

11. Yared Nuguse won the road mile at Kalakaua Merrie Mile in 3:56.58, #raceresultsweekly

12. Mollie Seidel ran 32:35 for win at 10k at #HonoluluMarathon, as she builds to #olympictrialsmarathon

13. The 2024 Dubai Marathon, is being held on January 7, 2024, sign up here: dubaimarathon.org

Noah Lyles, photo by Brian Eder for RunBlogRun

14. The 2024 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix is February 3, 2023, tickets can be found here: https://www.nbindoorgrandprix.com/tickets/ ! #NoahLyles, #GabbyThomas and #JakeWightman will be there!

15. Remember, #RAKHalfMarathon is now February 24, 2024, to sign up go here! https://rakcalendar.ae/events/ras-al-khaimah-half-marathon/

See you tomorrow in the #Larrenhalle, in Fort Atkinson, WI for #CoffeewithLarry, #teawithLarry, #GoulashwithLarry, Whatever you call it, we will be there with your favorite daily podcast on track and field!

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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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