Coffee with Larry, April 11, 2025, big weekend with European Road Championships and Arcadia Invitational !

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

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

Today is Friday, April 11, 2025.

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!

RAK Half Marathon start, February 24, 2024, photo by Giancarlo Columbo

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

adidas AdiZero Boston special colors for the Dubai Marathon, photo courtesy of 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 the past 30 years!

New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Track & Field
Boston Massachusetts, USA
February 3, 2023
World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting

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, and Dan Sheridan. Now, we thank, 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!

Brooks Glycerin MAX, photo by Brooks Running

Out topics today:

1. The European Road Championships are April 12-13, 2025. Watch the streaming on European Athletics.

2. The Arcadia Invitational is one of the most important high school meets of the high school season, going April 11-12, 2025.

Jane HEDENGREN, won the 2024 NIKE NXN girls cross country championships by 40 seconds! photo courtesy of RUNNERSPACE

3. The Boston Marathon is just a week away!

Greg Meyer won the 1983 Boston Marathon in 2:09:00, photo from Boston Athletic Association

4. London Marathon is just two weeks away!

Sifan Hassan takes the 2023 TCS London Marathon
London, England, United Kingdom
April 23, 2023, photo by Kevin Morris

5. Grand Slam 2 is less than three weeks away!

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Grand Slam Track Meet 1
Kingston, Jamaica
April 6, 2025, photo by Kevin Morris

See you 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.

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