Coffee with Larry, Episode 764, Monaco is coming! Final thoughts on Pre Classic.

July 12, 2025

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

This is Coffee with Larry for Thursday, Wednesday, July 10, 2025.

Coffee with Larry was established June 2022.

Our topics:

1. The Monaco Herculis meeting is one of my lifetime faves. Here’s why!

2. Stuart Weir’s piece on the Monaco meeting: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/07/monaco-herculis-diamond-league-meeting-the-intro.html?swcfpc=1

3. Some more thoughts on NIKE’s comeback and why NIKE Pre Classic so important.

4. Understanding Prefontaine. Read new book, #TheFrontRunner, by Brendan OMeara, www.brendanomeara.com . I love the book, it is my night time reading, thanks Jeff Oliver for intro and great meeting an inspired writer.

5. Thinking of Bill Dellinger and Steve Prefontaine, two iconic figures in our sport.

6. Staying at #TheGordonHotel, primo, my new fave in Eugene!

See you soon on #CoffeewithLarry!

Sponsor: Omius, the cooling tech company, www.omius.io

Sponsor: Brooks Running, since 1990, a sponsor of my platforms, www.brooksrunning.com

Special thanks to NIKE Running, Brett Holts, Tony Bignell, and shout out to Ashton Eaton, who is contributing to some great product!

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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