Eleven Deep Thoughts on the 2025 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

The 2025 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix was my 28th visit to the original Boston Indoor Games.

The 2025 NB Indoor was the 30th year of this iconic meet.

For decades, this meet has been my first indoor meeting of the year. Why do I attend each and every year (well, almost)?

The fans, the athletes and the non-stop excitement highlights the beauty of our sport!

Here are my top 10 Deep Thoughts from Boston on February 2, 2025

1. Grant Holloway has won every 60 meter hurdle race he has competed in since 2011. That is sixty-five races. His win in Boston, in both the heats and the finals just added to his legacy. Grant’s speed and hurdling over 60 meters makes him almost unbeatable.

   

2. Bryce Hoppel, the 2024 World Indoor Champion at 800 meters is on a roll. Bryce loves to compete, knows he is fit and is enjoying running, and this race in Boston showed it. When Bryce took off that was all she wrote. Bryce will compete in Millrose and USATF Indoors, but no Worlds this year, where he has a bronze (2022) and gold (2024).

   

    

3. Masai Russell won the women’s 100 meter hurdles in Paris last summer, giving her the Olympic gold medal. Masai won the 60 meter hurdles in Boston! Masai is enjoying her indoor tour and is very popular with the new Media. The 60 meter hurdles for women is one of the most competitive events on the entire indoor schedule.

   

4. Melissa Courtney-Bryant, one of New Balance’s global stars, won the women’s 3,000 meters in EL/WL 8:28.69. Melissa has won European Indoor medals and was battled by Elise Cranny, US in 8:29:87. In third place, in her first pro race, golden girl Parker Valby, who ran a PB of 8:34.95! The women’s 3,000 meters was the penultimate event of the evening.

   

5. The Men’s 1,500 meters was a battle between Josh Hoey and Grant Fisher. Josh has been on fire, setting PBs in the mile, setting and AR in the 1000 meters, and in Boston, running 3:33.66 PB. Grant Fisher, who took Olympic bronze at 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, moved down to the 1,500 meters. Grant got bumped a bit, but kept his cool and ran a 3:33.99 PB.

   

6. The women’s mile was won by Heather MacLean, who set a PB and AR in Boston, as she had in 2023. Heather has a strong kick, but most importantly, this is where she trains, this is her house. No one beats Heather in her house.

   

7. Quincy Wilson is seventeen years old. He is an Olympic gold medalist and has been setting HSR in each event he has run in 2025. In Boston, Quincy ran a PB in 45.66, against world class quarter milers. What will he do next?

   

8. Andrew Coscoran won the Men’s 3,000 meters in a new Irish record of 7:30.75. Azeddine Habiz, FRA, took second in a fine 7:31.50. Cam Myers, the 18 year old Aussie phenom, set a NR of 7:33.12. Hobbs Kessler ran a PB of 7:35.06, as he preps for the Millrose Wanamaker Mile.

   

9. Rai Benjamin and Vernon Norwood did battle over the 300 meters, with Rai, the 2025 Olympic gold medalist at 400 meter hurdles and 4x400m winning over Vernon Norwood, Olympic gold medalist at 4x400m relay (and a man who set PBs at 400 meters the last 4 years!).

   

10. The final event of the night, the event that brought the house down, was the Men’s 60 meters. Featured were Marcell Jacobs, Italy, the 2021 Tokyo gold medalist at 100 meters and 4×100 meter relay, Trayvon Bromell, 2016 Rio Olympian, bronze medalist at 4×100 meters, and Noah Lyles, 2024 Olympic 100m gold, Olympic 200m bronze and 2023 WC gold at 100m,200m and 4x100m. In the final, Noah Lyles delighted the crow in winning in SB of 6.52, which is the end of his indoor season. This is a long season, with Tokyo WC happening in September 2025.

    

11. The other stars? The TRACK at New Balance, is one of the finest facilities for indoor athletics in the world. The fans are second to none and the athletes came to perform and they did! See you in 2026! The TRACK at New Balance is the house that Jim Davis (owner of New Balance) built, and it is a sanctuary of sport for our great sport, track and field athletics.

    

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