Coffee with Larry, March 31, 2025, Grand Slam Track almost here, The TEN was huge success, thoughts on World Indoors, and more on world athletics!

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!

Today is March 31, 2025, a Monday.

This Day in Track & Field-December 2, Frank Shorter wins Fukuoka Marathon for third time (1973), Born this Day: Mike Larrabee, two-time 1964 Olympic gold medalist (400m, 4x400m), written by Walt Murphy

The Brooks Run Guide Interviews, Julian Florez, Assistant Coach, Brooks Beasts Track Club, Episode 9

The Brooks Run Guide, A Brooks Coaching Newsletter, Back Issues (#1-#9), Fall/Winter 2025

Coffee with Larry graphic, photo by StarGazerPix, graphic design by Mike Deering

Coffee with Larry is sponsored by our friends at OMIUS, the cooling technology company, which you can find at www.OMIUS.IO.

If you are a coach, an elite athlete send me a note at [email protected] and I will send you an OMIUS sample, as the OMIUS folks would like some comments on their product! www.OMIUS.IO.

Omius hat with cooling cubes, photo courtesy of Omius

Special thanks to PACE Events, managers of #DubaiMarathon and the #RasAlKhaimahHalfMarathon (thanks to Peter Connerton and Alan Ewan).

Buta Gemechu en route to his win at 2025 Dubai, photo by Giancarlo Columbo/Dubai Marathon

Special thanks to Global Athletics & Marketing. Mark Wetmore, their co-founder and CEO, and his team of merry sports pranksters put on the #NBIndoorGP at the #TRACKatNewBalance where I have gone for 28 of past 30 years!

Graham Blanks, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
Track & Field meet
February 2, 2025
Boston, MA USA, photo by Kevin R. Morris

And finally, please support #BrooksRunning! Brooks has been sponsoring my projects since 1990 under Tom Carmody and Helen Rockey! Jim Weber kept the fire burning with Dave Larson, Jesse Williams and Dan Sheridan. Now, Amanda Reiss, Garrett Heath and Jillian Zech for their continued support. Brooks makes tremendous running shoes, I love the Glycerin Max, Cascadia GTX 16 and Brooks Ghost Max. To see Brooks footwear and apparel, please go to www.brooksrunning.com!

BROOKS Wire 8 track spike, photo courtesy of Brooks Running

Out topics today:

1. The Grand Slam Debut is this weekend!

Grand Slam Track Kingston will be April 4-6, 2025

2. Rekortan has come on as an official track supplier for Grand Slam Track.

3. The World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025 was pretty exciting, with strong daily performances.

Claire Bryant takes gold in the long jump, photo by Sona Maleterova for World Athletics

4. The TEN, the most exciting 10,000m outside of the World Champs was sponsored by HOKA Running.

Graham Blanks, The Ten by Sound Running
3 29 2025, photo by Kevin Morris

5. See yout tomorrow on Coffee with Larry!

Author

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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