This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!
This is Coffee with Larry for January 18, 2025.
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Our topics today:
1. The Astana Indoor Meeting opens the World Indoor Tour in 2025. Astana will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, on January 25, 2025.
Astana Indoor Meeting Facility, Astana, Kazakhstan, photo from Official Astana Indoor Meeting
2. RunBlogRun will be at the #RAKHalfMarathon, to be held on February 1, 2025. To register, go to www.rakhalfmarathon.com.
RAK Half Marathon, February 1, 2025
3. RunBlogRun will be at the #NBIndoorGrandPrix. This is my 28th visit to the meet (now in year 30). Go to www.nbindoorgp.com for tickets and info.
Femke Bol, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Track & FieldBoston Massachusetts, USAFebruary 3, 2023World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, photo by Kevin Morris
4. Millrose Games will be on February 11, 2025; visit www.millrosegames.com
Yared Nuguse winning mile at Millrose Games, photo by Kevin Morris
5. Josh Hoey and Bryce Hoppel will compete at the Millrose Games against each other. Hoey just set AR for 1000m and Hoppel, while racing indoors, will not defend his indoor title.
Josh Hoey running a 3:52 mile on December 7, 2024, photo courtesy of Georgetown Track & Field
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See you Thursday, January 23 for Coffee with Larry!
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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.”
