Coffee with Larry, April 8, 2025, Parts 1 and 2, Grand Slam Track, More thoughts on the debut!

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

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

Today is Tuesday, April 8, 2025, part 1 and part 2.

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 or an elite athlete, send me a note at [email protected], and I will send you an OMIUS sample. The OMIUS folks would like some comments on their product!

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).

Dubai 07/01/2024 Dubai Marathon 2024, Maratona di Dubai 2024 – Foto di Giancarlo Colombo/A.G.Giancarlo Colombo

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 the past 30 years!

Sadie Engelhardt wins the Girls Junior Mile, photo by Kevin Morris, 2024 NB Indoor GP

Finally, please support #BrooksRunning! Brooks has sponsored my projects since 1990 under Tom Carmody and Helen Rockey! Jim Weber kept the fire burning with Dave Larson, Jesse Williams, Dan Sheridan, 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 Brook’s footwear and apparel, please go to www.brooksrunning.com!

Hyperion Elite 4, photo by Brooks Running; learn more about this great shoe at www.brooksrunning.com

Out topics today:

1. The Grand Slam Track debut, what they did right, and where they can improve! Remember, Grand Slam Track will evolve

, and we will have less than 25 days to wait for the next event. The athletes were happy with the payday, that is for sure!

Gabby Thomas, 200m GST winner, Kingston, April 4, 2025, photo by Bee Trofort for Grand Slam Track

2. Essentially, Sports, which provides some good stories, also does a lot of clickbait, which I hope that they change.

Sydney McLaughlin takes the gold at 400-meter hurdles, photo by How Lao for Grand Slam Track

3. The European Indoor Champs were spectacular; I loved it.

Men’s 60 meters final, Apeldoorn2025 European Indoors, photo by European Athletics

4. This weekend, April 12 and 13, is the European Athletics Road Racing Championships.

5. We will be covering the European Road Champs.

Nadia Battocletti completes the 5k/10k double in Roma 2024, photo by European Athletics via Getty Images.

This is part 1 (25 minutes), and due to a technical challenge, part 2 (15 minutes) was divided into two parts.

Welcome to Coffee with Larry.

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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.

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